Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Mulligan (Julie Christie), an English governess, comes to Buenos Aires to care for two young girls. Her job is to teach them to be ladies, not women, in a landowner's household where grandmama sorts her old photos into two piles: "alive" and "dead." The family may as well be dead. They disdain their own culture and borrow Britain's; they ignore the dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity...
Last week Lyubimov, 69, made his U.S. debut at Washington's Arena Stage with ! a revised Crime and Punishment in English, a language he does not read or speak. To make the stage action conform to the vision in his head -- the standard by which Lyubimov, an auteurist and something of an autocrat, judges success -- he discussed the aims of the piece in Russian with Michael Henry Heim, an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote the English dialogue. Lyubimov then guided the actors through Interpreter Alexander Gelman, who is trained...
Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered me a lift on his motorcycle between states somewhere, on the way to Motor City...
...almost 10 years after getting her first short story in The New Yorker, the tables have turned, and it is Robison who is teaching young people the craft of writing fiction in English...
Reaction to her teaching over the years has been "universally, hysterically enthusiastic," says Professor of English Monroe Engle, who hired Robison for the job. John T. Zilcosky '87, a three time veteran of Car, notes that "She gives the class a relaxed atmosphere. She seems to stimulate conversation--a lot of laughing and joking around that lead to productive criticism...