Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although these teachers are separated by thousands of miles, their methods of trying to encourage children to write spring from a common source: the Bread Loaf School of English. There, near Vermont's Middlebury College, grade school and high school teachers give up part of their vacations each summer to spend six weeks brainstorming, studying and trading experiences as they try to devise new methods of getting their pupils to write. Says Dixie Goswami, a Clemson University English professor who heads Bread Loaf's program in writing: "We have nothing against 'skill-and-drill' writing curricula, except they...
...planned papal speeches have been drafted by U.S. writers and revised by the American prelate in the Vatican with the most regular access to the Pope. He is Archbishop Justin Rigali, a Los Angeles native who heads both the Holy See's diplomatic school and the English-language section of the Secretariat of State. Vatican insiders expect that John Paul will reaffirm some of his basic policies but without scolding. Says Vatican Press Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls: "He will convince not with authority but affection...
Acceptance! This is the preferred English path these days. What is missing in the new English sensibility, but not deeply missed, is a sentimentalized view of the misfortunate and the class animus that have energized English movies of the past 40 years. The new radicalism is psychological, not political, and it is often expressed as cheeky self-sufficiency...
...Secrets Act. All that the Brits are going to catch with that one is a few harmless former spies eking out their pensions with ripping yarns about the bad old days in MI5. No, what they need over there is an Unofficial Secrets Act -- something that will stop the English underclass from converting squalid youthful memories into rude, shrewd, occasionally lewd movies of the kind that have lately been jostling away at one another -- and at our innocent colonial funny bones. As a group they form a kind of Disasterpiece Theater, more blithely brutal than typically British, and likely...
...believe the worst about his son's fate. No movie actor works more patiently to achieve his emotional effects. No matter what stimulating mischief the young folks of British cinema are up to, one prays that the sun never sets on him or on this greatest of English movie genres...