Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman year we'd get the cheap stuff--quart bottles of Magnum or Olde English 800--and sometimes we'd splurge for a shorty (12-pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...
...shacks along the backroads of Mississippi and Louisiana--broken down huts that are homes to rural Blacks. They don't see urban classrooms in which students must leave the communal books before they go home in the afternoons, the classrooms in which 11th graders are taught English as a means of understanding a telephone book or deciphering a movie schedule in a newspaper...
...they do not speak through the duration of the message, nor do they speak when the picture blacks out. Alexander's wife breaks the silence to condemn the men of the household: "Why don't you do something!" she screams; the only words in the film delivered in English. Is this a conscious address by a Russian director to apathetic Americans...
Bailyn's 668-page tome--the first in a series on population movements--documents the lives of English and Scottish emigrants to the colonies between 1773 and 1776, the last Anglo-Saxon group to reach the East Coast before the American Revolution...
Guttmann is concentrating in History and Literature, specializing in France and Germany. She is fluent in both languages. "Some of the interview questions were in French, so, of course, candidates are expected to be fluent in both English and French," said Guttmann...