Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of a Cajun family that has spoken French since 1699. I resent the efforts to banish our language and render us foreigners in the land of our birth. Abolishing bilingual ballots, for example, will disenfranchise millions of American citizens who are more at ease in languages others than English. This crusade against bilingualism is not just xenophobia; it is fear of the diversity that is the essence of America itself...
...nation of immigrants, people of diverse ethnic backgrounds must have a common bond through which to exchange ideas. How can this be accomplished if there is no common language? Those who shelter the immigrant from learning English by creating a multilingual society are the ones who are creating a xenophobic atmosphere. They allow the immigrant to surround himself with a cocoon of language from which he cannot escape and which others cannot penetrate...
...musicians spoke English, and when Simon called, "Let's go to a D chord," he discovered "they didn't know what a D chord was. Then I realized that they had a different language and musical description for what they were doing. I decided -- fine, let them play what they want -- I will solve this problem later." After two weeks, Simon returned to his apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West with six rhythm tracks. He listened to them, chasing through "lots of culs-de-sac. I would think the melodies were in one place, and I'd find them...
Professor of English...
...room to debate the influence that Henry Moore had on modern sculpture. But the sheer pervasiveness of his work is not in doubt. When he died last week at the age of 88 in the farmhouse where he had lived and worked for more than 40 years, near the English village of Much Hadham, Henry Moore, C.H., O.M., was the best-known sculptor in the world...