Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Shultz that he was carrying a letter from Gorbachev to Reagan. Shultz called White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to suggest that he bring Shevardnadze to the Oval Office to deliver it in person. But not until Shevardnadze handed two copies of the letter, in Russian and English, to Reagan and briefly summarized its contents did it become clear that the last paragraph of the missive was one of the most extraordinary in the lengthening annals of White House-Kremlin correspondence. Reagan did not reply immediately; he devoted most of his 45-minute meeting with Shevardnadze...
...media sun. After he left the court, his convoy of cars was followed by a passel of press vehicles that caught up with him at a traffic light, and the reporters shoved microphones toward him through the car window. A smiling Zakharov said in accented but fluent English that he loved the American people and would someday like to return...
Perelman's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who raised poultry on a small Rhode Island farm. In one of many psychobiographical pole vaults, Herrmann says, "As soon as he could afford it, he began buying only the most expensive custom-made English clothes. They were so beautifully tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...
...Mazrui's personal, impassioned views are what set The Africans apart from most of PBS's good gray fare, and he makes telling points about his homeland's cultural predicament. Africa today, he says, is dependent on the West in ways it cannot control: without the English and French languages, | public business in most countries would come to a halt. Western moral standards have often seemed as impenetrable to Africans as theirs have to us. "Early European missionaries," Mazrui notes, "found it easier to admit a slave owner to Communion than a member of a polygamous household." Meanwhile, Africa still...
...immediate plans include studying English at the University of Texas and cheering for her football-player boyfriend this week at the annual Longhorns- Oklahoma Sooners game. Pretty quotidian for a girl whose spectacular flips and splits won her four perfect 10s and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, right? Not at all, said Mary Lou Retton, 18, as she announced her retirement from full-time gymnastics last week. She wants to "mix with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses...