Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter Cleveland, a history student at Columbia University. The photograph of New Yorkers at an antidrug candlelight vigil in the lead Nation story was taken by Carl Ganter, a student in the American-culture program at Northwestern. Throughout the summer the World Notes page has been written by Princeton English Major Wendy Smith, who handled a variety of other articles as well. And this week's cover story on the newly revealed paintings of Andrew Wyeth was reported in part by Amanda Jo Neubardt, who was able to draw on her background as a Barnard art-history major...
...reputation for provocative reporting. One article last year raised questions (still unresolved) about the authenticity of the Antioch chalice, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and purported to have been used by Jesus at the Last Supper. A few months ago, a man speaking broken English wandered into the magazine's offices. He turned out to be carrying slides smuggled out of the Soviet Union showing works from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts never before seen in the West...
...highly limited but highly visible and well-known crowd it attracts. If you graduated from Phillips Andover, Exeter, Groton, St. Paul's, Middlesex, Concord Academy or any New England prep school within the last five years, chances are that you'll run into someone from your eleventh grade English class waiting in line for ice cream in Oak Bluffs...
...Fort Niagara, won by the British in 1759. But, one Saturday not long ago, the Siege of Oswego (1756) was refought, and the French and their Indian allies forced a British surrender. Afterward, Harry Burgess, 38, a Port Huron, Mich., history teacher, ranted to an onlooker in French-accented English about "thees monster," the British army. Reverting to normal English, Burgess said that partaking in such battles "gives us a private time machine...
...American lingo, an offering sponsored by the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Before their five weeks are up, those who enroll will study hundreds of words and phrases that are as easy as pie to the American on the street but off the wall to someone trained only in textbook English. Grass roots, for instance. And deejay. Far-out stuff like that...