Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million people and as a second language by hundreds of millions more, widely dispersed English is becoming the universal tongue of trade, diplomacy, science and scholarship. Pilots of all nations use it for airways communication. Jazz teaches it to youth the world over. In emerging Asia and Africa, polyglot people take up English as the only way to comprehend their neighbors. The Chinese Communists speak English in propaganda broadcasts to East Africa. The Russians use it in broadcasts to the Far East, and stamp their Near East exports with the English legend, "Made in U.S.S.R...
This memoir begins in the breathless manner of a modern Ouida. The place: Berlin. The time: 1927. The occasion: the brilliant polyglot birthday party of a great lady shining with the glamour of international journalism in an age of prima donna correspondents...
...visit, it was the perfect format for Rusk, who is at his best in private diplomatic conversation. Rusk relied on his encyclopedic knowledge of world af fairs, lots of coffee, an occasional drink of Scotch, and two packs of Chester fields a day to get him through the polyglot, problem-laden week...
...Ministry an offer of 35 scholarships to a seminar for French language teachers this summer at the University of Besançon. A recent Defense Department survey of dependents' schooling overseas found the general system to be riddled with shortcomings, but cited John Carpenter's persistent, polyglot language program as "deserving unique commendation...
...more eclectic of the better dealers is polyglot George Staempfli, whose wares range from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start...