Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come here five years ago, not knowing any English. He had to borrow from a bank to buy his taxi medallion, but now the loan is almost paid off. He is over 50, and he has spent his life -- both here and there -- behind the wheel. He says, "The Russians are a good people, what fine people! But America is the best country in the world. It is not true that there is no work. You just have to want to find it, and they'll help you and there will be work. And there is such an abundance...
...better examples of what can be done without a real plot. His movie does have a story of sorts: two New Orleans hipsters are set up by their shifty friends, end up in a cell together and, with the help of a homicidal Italian with bad English, they escape...
...English author has charged that Harvard is attempting to suppress the publication of his biography of a famous art connoisseur while the Harvard University Press publishes its own officially sanctioned biography...
While it is not our place to endorse candidates for Harvard's lifetime faculty posts, the recent denials of tenure to Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, Professor of History Bradford A. Lee and Professor of English Robert N. Watson call for renewed scrutiny of Harvard's tenure policy. First, these professors represent some of the College's most valuable teaching resources...
...been his aim or his claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more than we read James Joyce." The author cherishes few illusions. He likes to be compared with...