Word: polyglot
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...crime was a toddler who had not yet mastered standard speech. The story's amateur detective was a philologist who unmasked the criminal when he cracked the child's babbled code. Carkeet's next novel, The Greatest Slump of All Time, told of a major league baseball team whose polyglot members one by one lapsed into clinical depression. Although they kept winning, they doubted the value of victory when it failed to make them happy, and found themselves facing mid-life moral crises while still in the first flush of youth...
...European polyglot poppers Stereo Total seem to always summon the same images in American minds: trendy coffee bars, tightly-dressed Euro hipsters, neon lights against shadowy backgrounds. It’s certainly the style their album covers more or less convey, especially prominent on their new Sub Pop debut Do The Bambi, on whose cover a green deer logo and the album’s title illuminate the faces of the band from above...
...need to strongly encourage study abroad, to make it almost a requirement,” he said. “We must encourage students to be polyglot and amphibious...we should aim students toward non-Western cultures and toward languages with different alphabets and structures...
...brusque L.A. detective (Tom Sizemore) investigates brutal acts by bad people--no back story, no moral, no attempts at uplift. What set it apart are the haunting music and the disorienting, bravura visuals--sometimes several minutes without dialogue--that turn L.A. from a neutral backdrop into a jumpy, polyglot place of seedy beauty. It's an art film disguised as a gripping meat-and-potatoes action show...
...point is that there is something uniquely awful about the experience of having to begin all over again and the way in which the various individuals and communities coped with the challenge played a key part in shaping Shanghai's foreign enclaves. For all its faults, the city's polyglot culture created a kind of tolerance; Germans of all political persuasions, she says, liked to spend an afternoon in the war years wandering through the Jewish ghetto, because its caf?s and bakeries reminded them of the fatherland...