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LIKEWISE, Indian, the better and more serious piece, runs amuck. Arnold has failed to see that Horovitz was not writing just a sharp TV script about the brutal terrorization of a non-English speaking alien lost in New York. Rather, this play is foremost a work about communication. Joey and Murph, the two violent toughs, are as lost as the Indian. They find themselves in a world where their mothers are whores, love has no relevance to them, and nothing makes any sense. They must step on a helpless creature, if only to prove to themselves that they are alive...
...Harvard University Press says it is "astounded" to learn that the Office of National Security has ordered the purchase of all existing copies of Age of the Scholar "for free distribution in Indonesia and Thailand." Asked why the book is being sent to non-English speaking countries, McGeorge Bundy, Director of the Office, replies tersely, "The reason is obvious...
...some non-English seniors, this is their "first English course, and they are justifiably worried about taking exams, for instance, without the chance to learn the approach and language of literature analysis in sections," Benson said. But, he added, "Nothing can be done about...
...student in the field must now pass written examination in only one foreign language, unless he is specializing in non-English speaking countries. Previously, knowledge of two foreign languages was required for all concentrator...
...tended too much to exalt itself and minimize God." The disease, as Canon Bell describes it, was partly inherited from the nation's founders, who, in Virginia and other colonies, treated the Church as "a conventional meeting place of the better-off landowners." The 19th Century waves of non-English immigrants, he feels, only made matters a little worse, because in the mixed society that resulted the Episcopalians soon came to regard themselves as patricians...