Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference afterward, Dukakis said Hispanic voters need jobs and affordable housing, not training in English, to survive economically...
...know anything more inspiring than full employment," Dukakis said. "English is the language of this country. It doesn't have to be the official language. I don't buy that. We grow from the diversity of this country...
...remembering the Alamo might have been political dynamite for a candidate depending on Hispanic voters to maintain his lead in the two days remaining before Super Tuesday primaries here and across the South. Dukakis has featured ads in Spanish as well as English...
Inman-Ebel's clinical tone enrages some people. "What's wrong with forward tongue carry?" says John Tinkler, who teaches history of the English language at the University of Tennessee. "It doesn't sound like Indy-goddam-ana." Tinkler is a vast, round man with silver hair, dark skin and flashing, protuberant eyes. He describes his accent as "educated rural Southern," the language college graduates in his family have spoken for generations. He wishes Inman-Ebel would attack the stereotypes and the attitudes, instead of the accent. "She's teaching people how not to talk like folks," he says. "That...
Samuel Hynes, 63, is a literary critic (The Auden Generation, The Edwardian Turn of Mind) and a professor of English at Princeton. These accomplishments do not figure in his narrative, which ends a few months after the war and Hynes' service as a Marine dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific. Looking back, the author is convinced that members of his generation, who grew up not in college or at jobs but training for battle, shared a secret that "made us different from those who were older or younger than ourselves, or who were...