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...role of English as the common language of the state of California is preserved and enhanced" and requires that no law be made that "diminishes or ignores the role of English." Nationally, a Washington-based group called U.S.English -- boasting 200,000 members and a linguist, former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa, as its honorary chairman -- is waging a direct-mail campaign to raise money and lobby for a constitutional amendment that would honor English as the country's single official language...
Some see bilingual education as potentially worse than that. Former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa believes the result of language maintenance could be to foster divisiveness like that of the French-speaking separatist movement in Canada that peaked in the 1970s. As an intended antidote, he introduced and still lobbies for a constitutional amendment that would make English the official U.S. language for government affairs...
...industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman...
...everyday dealings Svetlana behaved more reasonably, frequently disarming new acquaintances with a charm that was undeniably genuine. She touched people by the evident sincerity of her religious belief. "She could be warm, lovely and simple," says Margedant Hayakawa, Wes Peters' sister, who remained a supportive friend...
Svetlana did not immediately tell Olga that she was going to take her to the Soviet Union. Instead, she attempted to cut the child's lifeline to the U.S.--perhaps her cruelest act. Wildly misconstruing a letter from Margedant Hayakawa, Svetlana sought to convince Olga that her aunt no longer cared for her. Olga then signed a typed letter that said she would stop writing to all members of the Peters family. At least one line of the letter sounded more like Svetlana than Olga: "All right, kill me, send me a letter bomb if you like." Says Olga...