Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ladd replaced Elizabeth R. McKinsey, who stepped down last spring to become a dean at Carlton College. McKinsey was also associate professor of English and American literature...
Dudley House Katherine Lawyer History and Literature Anne H. Wheeler English...
Lowell House Jennifer L. Bader English Ellen Lebowitz Social Studies Amy J. Merritt Psychology...
Although it has long been famously neutral, Switzerland, as an English scholar once wrote, "has been in a state of war every weekend since 1945." The gibe has more than a little truth to it. On weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army...
...with delicious style. The great gray lady of movie drama brings her precise acting tools to a comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...