Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...
...World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate) never fails to give her another chance. Yet, unlike Daisy, she does not go under...
...Since Algeria, the colonial force has shrunk from 15,000 to 7,500 men, and it is not even as foreign as it used to be: though more than 25% of the legion are still German, an estimated 20% are French, while Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and others form a polyglot minority. After nine long years of dull garrison duty in Corsica, New Caledonia and France, all that matters to the 1,000 legionnaires in Chad is that they are at war once again. TIME Correspondent James Wilde spent five days in the field with them. His report...
...being a writer," he has come to academic life and to eminence the long way round. He was born in Lachine, Quebec, an industrial suburb of Montreal, in 1915. just two years after his Russian parents emigrated from St. Petersburg. (He still speaks fluent French.) "It was a polyglot village of Sicilians, Ukrainians, Scots, Croats and Indians," Bellow remembers. "I had an Iroquois nurse who chewed meat before feeding it to me. I'm sure it did me good...