Word: linguists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Telelectures" were pioneered at the University of Omaha, where Linguist Michel Beilis was saddled with the problem of luring big time lecturers to a distant and none-too-rich campus. Author Harry Golden, for example, set his price as "$1,500 just to lecture, $1,700 if I have to answer questions, $2,000 if I have to have cookies with the ladies." But by phone Beilis got the Golden word from North Carolina for a cutrate $214-$64 for the call and $150 for Harry. Omaha has since staged telelectures with eminences all over, from Anthropologist Margaret Mead...
...Kitten & Linguist. But Hollywood could never make her into one of its once numerous mannikins, because she has too much of a head start. She is a bright, fast-moving girl with a mind of her own. Being a star does not impress her. "I want to be a good actress," she says. "The word star is flexible." Beyond German, she speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English, and is an established star in the French, German and Italian cinema. In the parts that have built her fame, she has almost invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with...
...What mo' could you ask?") He studied classics and comparative philology at Manchester and Cambridge Universities and started his academic career as a classicist. (He still maintains that classics and mathematics provide the best education one can get.) In fact, what is most irresistible about his brand of linguistics is that it depends on a broad knowledge of individual languages, history, and literature despite its rigorous use of a statistics and mathematics. "The linguist must begin by knowing languages as well as knowing about languages," Whatmough says. "When he can handle at least some with confidence, he may proceed...
...five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...four scientists are biologists George L. Clarke '27 and Paul Levine; astronomer Edward Lilley; and mathematical linguist Anthony G. Oettinger...