Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAITIAN mother and three children spent some time in a shelter but now have found an apartment with a volunteer's help. The mother speaks less English than her daughters, although they arrived in the Land of Opportunity a year ago. Apartments are always hard to find and expensive to keep; the average single-bedroom apartment in Cambridge rents for $550 per month...
...hours of the accident, more than 400 passengers and crew members were pulled to safety in an exceptional rescue operation. The bodies of 51 people were recovered, but 84 others are missing and presumed dead. The toll made the mishap the worst peacetime ship disaster in the history of English Channel shipping...
...Innocents turns the horror story/psychodrama novel into a drawing room drama. The action of the play centers on Miss Giddens (Ellen Harvey), a young governess for an unusual family in an old English country house, circa the late 1800's. The only residents of this isolated estate are two adolescent children, brother and sister, named Miles (Glen Whitney) and Flora (Kathy Urso), and their maid, Mrs. Grose (Carolyn Duffy...
...piece, "It's a Strange World" (February 17), John Rosenthal complains about the lack of courses at Harvard geared towards Australia and laments the fact that Harvard offers instruction in "strange" and "exotic" languages. We must contradict him. First, there are many courses in English, which is the official language of Australia, and in which language Australia has produced some outstanding writers...
...language spoken by most people in the Indian subcontinent, and their descendants in all parts of the world so that it is now the second important language in Great Britain. In terms of the number of people speaking it, Urdu and its Hindustani/Hindi analogues rank third after Chinese and English. We should also mention that its literature, which goes back to the fourteenth century, is much vaster than American literature...