Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night, I met Marcelo Carrera, a mediocre player from Argentina who scored the winning goal for the Strikers. While he struggled to answer the questions of other reporters in English, I began to talk to him in Spanish. He was delighted. I was estatic...
Selected on the basis of "a combination of grades, activities, character, friend-liness and knowledge of English," Elena F. Putilina, a Soviet chemistry major participating in the exchange program, said she and her comrades will remain at Harvard through the end of this school year...
...country, we don't sentence our artists to death, like the Ayatollah, or send them off to slave labor camps, like Stalin," wrote Professor of English Robert S. Brustein in the October issue...
...Guangdong electronics factory, the quality-control officer concedes his own ineptitude. "I graduated in English from Fudan University ((in Shanghai)) and was immediately assigned here," he says. "I don't know anything about the work here, so I can't judge product quality very well. I wish I could go somewhere else, but I may be stuck here for the rest of my life. I could learn the job, but moving up is almost impossible without guanxi" -- that word again -- "which I don't have. If I had it, I maybe could have arranged it so I wasn't sent...
...intricate rhythms and trick accents of a George Gershwin, although the strangely sinister Puttin' on the Ritz twists and turns back on itself like a stutter-stepping snake. Nor did Berlin, who wrote his own words, generally show Cole Porter's kind of cleverness, although he could put some English on a homely sentiment in a song like Lazy (1924): "I wanna peep through the deep/ Tangled wildwood,/ Counting sheep/ 'Til I sleep/ Like a child would./ With a great big valise full of books to read where it's peaceful/ While I'm killing time being lazy...