Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthony Romano '90, who is currently working with the after-school program and plans to continue this summer, said he helps the refugee children because "acquiring English skills is the key to being acclimated to the American culture." The benefits are not one-sided, he added. "I hope to learn from them as much as they learn from...
Twice a week after school and on Saturday mornings, 16 students from other area schools also receive help from the program. The Harvard volunteers bring them to the West End House Boys and Girls Club where they tutor them in English and math for about two hours. The program also seeks to open the refugee children's eyes to the world around them, by taking them on field trips--to receive Christmas gifts from Flynn or to visit the Children's Museum. "The amount of information transmitted is not as important as the appreciation of learning," said Richard Louie...
Still, members have been arrested for distinctly unsymbolic criminal vandalism and assault in California, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, Florida and Massachusetts. Their makeshift uniform makes them recognizable everywhere: shaved heads and garish tattoos, flight jackets, black English work boots -- and a California touch, Fred Perry tennis shirts. Skinhead culture seems to spread through racist rock music. Tapes and records by white- power rock groups feature songs such as Nigger, Nigger and Prisoner of Peace, the musical saga of Rudolf Hess. One group is called the Final Solution...
...anchorman; Ronald Reagan doing a Mortimer Snerd impression as the mystery guest on What's My Line?, Vladimir Zworykin, one of TV's technological pioneers, being interviewed by former Radio Announcer Ben Grauer in a 1948 oddity called The Story of Television. "Ben," says Zworykin, in heavily accented English, "it is like fever. When the television bug bites you, you never can stop working...
...there in 1949, the Taipei government will be led by one of the native Taiwanese, who make up 80% of the total population of 20 million. Lee, 65, was born to a family of rice and tea farmers on the island's north coast. A devout Presbyterian who speaks English fluently, he was educated in Kyoto, Japan, and earned a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Cornell in 1968. Lee joined the Cabinet as a Minister Without Portfolio in 1972 and later served as Taipei mayor and Taiwan province governor. The new President has no political base, however, and may wind...