Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both pre-law students and students who are interested in community service will work to insure that people who don't speak English to receive a fair trail and that mental patients are treated humanely...
Some volunteers will monitor the Essex county courts, making sure that they comply with state legislation requiring the presence of interpretors in court when the defendant cannot speak English, said Attorney Ernest Winsor '58, who works at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. The law was drafted by the Institute and passed...
...others. With her nearest and dearest, Sarah fends off recriminations by going on the offense. She hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were. You looked dyed...
...When a specimen was needed from the top, its owner would gather her skirts in one hand and scale up the sliding slope with the other to collect it. Coming down, the practical woman simply slid. "I was so stunned," Kelly says. "No matter where you go in the English-speaking world, you can find books," Kelly says...
SOME will be destroyed for other reasons. A friend from Laos tells me how they burn the English books there. They burn it all, books, papers, maps of America; they burn the evidence of a nation, culture, civilization...