Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
Alan Brickman '76, who runs the city-sponsored Cambridge School Volunteers program, goes beyond Rindge to emphasize the scope and variety of the whole city. "Cambridge ranges from prominent families to non-English speaking families--Cambridge is Harvard Square, but it is also [housing projects] Jefferson Park and Rindge Towers," Brickman says. "The trick is to find the appropriate place for the appropriate volunteer...
...offering fair and legitimate criticism. Although Baldwin denied any malicious intent in the Review's attack, he allowed such flattering statements to be printed about the professor as "he looks like a junkie," "he isn't qualified to be a migrant fruit picker," and "if professors had to take English 5, Bill Cole would be out on the street...
...myth, the American myth," says Screenwriter David Newman, who collaborated on the Broadway musical and three of the films. "When we first started writing Superman I, some friends said, 'What are you doing that for?' And I said, 'If I were an English screenwriter and I were writing about King Arthur, you wouldn't be asking that.' " John Byrne, who actually is an English-born writer but now turns out the monthly scripts and drawings for the Superman comic books, calls his hero the "ultimate American success story -- a foreigner who comes to America, and is more successful here than...
...Strauss relishes that kind of ribbing, and knows exactly who he is. Today he sports Savile Row suits and $250 English shoes, but he grew up in the tiny town of Stamford, Texas. Neither of his parents was especially religious, but as Strauss once said, "A poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns early how to survive." His father, Charles Strauss, was an aspiring concert pianist who emigrated from Germany in 1915. Landing in New York City, he took a job as a traveling piano salesman. On a swing through Texas, he met and fell in love with Edith Schwartz...