Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, one of the four, joked about his roommates during a speech at Eliot House to commemorate Harvard's 350th anniversary. All of the roomies except Steiner are professors, two of whom, Professor of English Walter J. Kaiser and Professor East Asian Languages and Civilization Phillip Kuhn, are tenured at Harvard. The other roommate Paul Sheets is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles...
...this fall, the fragrance that's causing the greatest sensation in Europe won't be sold in Bloomingdales but in book stores. German writer Patrick Suskind's international best seller Perfume has been translated into English and already has a trail of American readers avidly tracking its scent...
Some 2,300 middle managers have "volunteered" to take a 5% pay cut. Last month the company even traded five tons of old documents to recyclers for 330 rolls of toilet paper. Nissan refuses to reveal the goal of its drive, but Tokyo's English-language Asahi Evening News reports the company aims to save $1.3 billion annually...
...displayed at local festivals. For a time, the boy had the best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life of Africa and a Western education, first at college in Ibadan near his village and then at the University of Leeds in Britain, where he earned a B.A. in English literature in 1957. After graduation he worked as a teacher and scriptwriter for London's Royal Court Theater, where some of his early sketches and short plays were performed...
...slickly produced volume includes the script for the film; the only thing to be said for it is that reading an English translation of a Japanese adaptation of an Elizabethan drama is boring indeed. The script does help to identify the subject of each otherwise untitled picture...