Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly 50 years ago, when the University was giving 60 or 70 honorary degrees to the world's top scholars," recalls Weinstein, who was then entering his sophomore year. "I had to translate a telegram from English to German for Jung's wife, who spoke only German. And I had had only one year of German...
...Harvard effort, spearheaded by attorney Peter L. Malkin '55 and Sen. Lowell M. Weicker (R-Conn.), got around the restriction by securing Harvard the man, not Harvard the college, the 33rd slot in the Great Americanstamp series. As such, the teaching elder whobequeathed his library and 800 English pounds tothe first American college will join the likes ofthe late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black,attorney William Jennings Bryan, poet T.S. Eliot'04, jazz great Duke Ellington, and writer JackLondon on the top right corner of America'senvelopes...
...music is the sound track for the movie of the mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...
...only to turn up in the rest room, where two kidnapers have cut the girl's hair and changed her clothes. Some are funny, like the student survey that "discovers" that green M&M's are an aphrodisiac, and some maliciously lead to racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with the Super Bowl broadcast saying that the latest hot legends are pure...
...meantime, following a legal challenge by the country's leading English-language newspapers, the government conceded that two of its emergency orders concerning the press had been promulgated improperly, and were therefore invalid. One order forbade the press to cover actions of the security forces, and the other banned journalists from black residential areas. The directives were thrown out by the court because the government had failed to announce them in the official gazette or by public proclamation, but had simply dispatched them by telex to the South African Press Association. The government can still put the measures into effect...