Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word "Ascot," when associated with horses, evokes images of traditional English pomp: prestigious races held before large crowds of stylish, high-society spectators...
...finally had the opportunity to break down the culture barriers when a schoolteacher in the village asked him to teach an adult English class she was organizing. He gladly agreed. The first day of the class, Sandburg recalls smiling, "everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...
Scenario 4: An English major has handed in a creative writing thesis entitled "Madonna Quixote." Half-way through the thesis, a sharp-eyed grad student realized that he was reading Cervantes "Don Quixote" with the genders reversed. What is the appropriate punishment for this plagiarist...
Option A: Forcing the student to read an issue of the Harvard Lampoon cover to cover and then translate the Vanitas section into English...
Although a "compromise" was worked out with the international bankers, it was clear to all in the financial communities that the South African economy was going to be in trouble. Within South Africa itself a group of prominent white (English speaking) business leaders took steps of their own, including visits to Lusaka, Zambia for conferences with the leadership of the banned African National Congress. The government was furious, but realized it could not act against its own business leadership...