Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RATHER THAN destroying a city in the old scientific style, an English major might suggest sending a Harvard professor behind enemy lines to broadcast lectures on the use of the word "the" as traced through Milton's Paradise Lost. When everyone in the enemy country falls asleep, we could then run in and wreak havok by painting every third house magenta, or possibly mauve...
...College yesterday gave the final approval for the Student Production Association's (SPA) plan to invite English new wave star Elvis Costello on a trip across the Atlantic for a one-night appearance at Harvard...
Last February Washburn was dismissed from Cambridge's Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, where he had taught English for 23 years, after he admitted he had encouraged children to view pornographic material and masturbate, according to a letter signed by the headmaster and sent this week to all parents of BB&N students...
...clear that the H/R Songwriters' Association is trying to strike a balance between encouragement, commiseration, and critique at the monthly workshops. For performers without a band to bounce ideas off of, the workshops may be ideal as testing grounds for new ideas and as places to perform--something like English Car, without a grade...
After supper Begun was able to read by the dim light, but he was allowed no more than five books at a time. "This was difficult for me because I read books in English and Hebrew, and I needed dictionaries. I also needed mathematics textbooks, but they refused. They said I was not a student...