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...DIED. MITSURU HANADA, 55, slight but skillful grappler hailed as the "Prince of Sumo" for his courageous style and good looks; from oral cancer; in Tokyo. A trim 100 kg, Hanada?who fought as Ozeki Takanohana I?followed his grand-champion elder brother Wakanohana I into the dohyo (ring), reaching the sport's ?lite division at age 18 and attracting a spirited fan base over his 16-year career. After retiring in 1981, Hanada became director of the Japan Sumo Association; he is the father of two grand champions of the 1990s, Wakanohana III and Takanohana...
...Summer Reruns One thing Richard Corliss overlooked in "Once More, with Feeling," his story on this summer's film remakes [May 16], is that adaptation is a common practice in Western culture. Greek drama and the works of Homer were based on familiar legends and stories from the oral tradition, and the plays of Shakespeare were often adapted from literary sources. It's what you do with the material, and how you make it new, that counts. M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Randolph-Macon College Ashland, Virginia, U.S. Stargazing I was pleased to read about the third...
Seven of nine committees working on specific areas of the review have now officially released reports. And an eighth, the Committee on General Education, issued an oral report to the Faculty two weeks...
...report also calls for the creation of a certificate—similar to that given to students completing a language citation—that recognizes students who further explore the study of written and oral communication...
...enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse of the sixteenth century, before the emergence of iambic pentameter in the theatre, sounded like that: longer lines, lots of alliteration, a basically oral style sometimes called “tumbling measure...