Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meters--1. Meredith Rainey, Harvard, 54.0; 2. Kim Deasy, Brown, 58.9; 3. Kate English, Brown...
...Murdoch succeeds with his plan to integrate some of Harper's operations with those of his Glasgow-based William Collins publishing house, the result could be what Brooks Thomas, Harper's chief executive, calls, "perhaps the major English language publisher in the world." Adds he: "Rupert Murdoch has very deep pockets and a very broad view...
GARCIA Lorca's Blood Wedding, easily the most famous play by the most famous 20th century Spanish writer, has by now surely earned a place in the Spanish theatrical canon analogous to that of Romeo and Juliet in the English cannon. Like Romeo and Juliet, Garcia Lorca's version of the classic theme of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is a poetic tragedy, rich in symbolic imagery and comic in scope...
...WHERE Shakespeare's characters in Romeo and Juliet are clearly universal, local Andalusian flavor pervades those of Blood Wedding and much of the Spanish specificity and poetry of Garcia Lorca's vision are lost on an American audience watching an English translation...
...adapted an already existing translation herself, which means that the blame for the loss of Garcia Lorca's poetic diction and for the unusual interpretation of certain characters is hers. Poetry, even free verse such as Garcia Lorca's galloping, assonant verse. If the actors delivery of this awkward English version of Garcia Lorca's poetry falls flat at times, they may be excused...