Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Race still remains a theme in Afro-American poetry, said Professor of English Helen H. Vendler, who will participate in the conference tomorrow. "I don't see how any black poet could have not known from the age of two that there is a color question," she said...
...next time you're in California, try to find Stanford. Just don't ask anybody who speaks English. Consult a map--as long as it's printed in secret code! If you call Information and ask for Stanford's number, a computerized voice will tell you the answer...
Webster and Duncan, at least, are now free to move from a monotonous English lesson into history...
...fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan's Salzburg Festival. The material is her familiar mix of early English songs by Purcell and Handel, German lieder, French chansons, and spirituals, but she sings with such crystalline vocalism and beguiling elan that it becomes irresistible. Levine's elegant pianism is a model of the accompanist...
Salzman knows exactly how he felt. For two years the author stood part way in, part way out of a rapidly moving conveyance called the People's Republic of China. Fresh out of Yale, he took a job in 1982 teaching English at a college in Changsha. He lived, worked and learned among his pupils, mostly young medical students, plus a group of former Russian-language instructors sent down for retraining after shifting political winds had rendered their specialty obsolete. Nearly every day Salzman tried to reignite imaginations extinguished by the Cultural Revolution. Nearly every hour circumstances taught him about...