Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Section Leader: Hello and welcome to our first section meeting. I am your section leader and, because this is a humanities section and not a science section, I am fluent in the English language. I know you are all here to delve into the mysteries of Pope's magnificent literature, but before we do let's get to know each other. Please describe yourself...
...most frustrating thing about Sweettable is that it contains the seeds of a good play--or several good plays, for that matter. Ribman never decided whether he was composing a metaphor for modern Europe, a guilty-secrets melodrama, a French philosophical play or an English drawing-room comedy. So he tosses elements of all these genres into his pot, and serves up the dramatic equivalent of broccoli cheese pasta--limp, stringy, with an occasional lumpy mass that may once have been a theme or plot twist now rendered unrecognizable by incompetent writing. Sweettable is talking-head drama of the worst...
...ways she sets a good example is academically. Sugrue, an English concentrator, learned from basketball the importance of self-discipline in her studies. "It made me realize I had to set priorities for myself," she said...
Seminars range from the ordinary to the exotic. "There's everything from Old English works to contemporary novels about Vietnam, from the Mayas to pop culture in England," Denault said. One class, limited to two or three students and taught by Herbert W. Levi, professor of zoology and biology, will study spiders and other terrestrial invertebrates...
...from my life and travel around the world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...