Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bilingual problem in California upsets me (NATION, Aug. 25). Americans should have only one language, and that is English. As an Indian, I know whereof I speak. When I travel to southern or eastern India, I am a foreigner ) in my own country because I cannot speak the local language. No country can have a sense of unity if it speaks 35 or 40 different languages. That is what will happen to the U.S. if it gives in to the supporters of bilingualism...
...survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising and falling with the simple rhythms of the native Pidgin English. "If I go, who make home for me? Where I go? Where I find home? Where life...
...been every bit as influential as any of my classes, possibly more influential." His brother Drew, also educated at home, is a freshman this fall. Among Drew's arriving classmates will be Horia Mocanu, who fled Rumania to Turkey with his family in a small boat, taught himself English and, after his U.S. arrival in 1982, earned straight A's at a Cleveland high school, became editor of the paper, founded a chess club and set up an alliance of area high school newspapers. Frederick Rudolph, emeritus professor of the history of education at Williams and onetime visiting lecturer...
...Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest of every inflection; a suspicion of all things posh lurked in the slurs and slang. This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture...
...visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various English and Russian words should be pronounced. Wilson concludes that the novelist has "something in him rather nasty -- the cruelty of the arrogant rich...