Word: lingualism
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Born and raised on the Italian-French border, d'Entreves is naturally not only poly-lingual but also polycultural. "I consider myself a European," maintains the Professor. "Europe is my home, not merely Italy or England." Beginning his career with a thesis on Hegel, d'Entreves received his doctorate at the University of Turin. For the next three years the professor studied at Oxford and in Germany, and in 1929 began his pedagogic career as lecturer at Turin. The ensuing years found him engaged in peripatetic assignments at Turin, Massina, and Paville, and in 1932 he received his D. Phil...
...Switzerland, where the estimated cost of living is $120 a month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...
...bistro, they stumbled on an "oh so typical, hold it a minute please, mister" farmer who seemed furtively stealing a few moments relaxation at one of the sidewalk tables. He took the intrusion with good grace, and began, in fact, to converse with some of the multi-lingual invaders...
...study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, his years as a lawyer, and extensive European travel. At Cambridge, his supervisor was I.A. Richards, whose standards of artistic excellence based on absolutes conditioned Sweeney's critical tastes. Working with Richards and William Empson in Basic English stimulated in appreciation of poetry's lingual exactness and internal architecture...
Calcutta, Too. In his house above the city, Chief Minister Desai sadly looked over burning Bombay. Desai, who is a Gujarati, had warned Nehru against dividing India by lingual groups. "Maharashtrians have made a mockery of India's preaching to the world to be nonviolent," he mourned. "If the government yields to Maharashtrian violence, democracy in India becomes mobocracy, and India will be cut to pieces...