Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page piece in Sunday's New York Times, Frederick said that, contrary to the beliefs of some linguistics experts, the world "like" is an effective rhetorical device that "demonstrates the speaker's heightened sensibility...
Carolann M. Nowlan, a native English speaker, says she doesn't expect her son Jason to become completely fluent of Spanish. Nowlan says she enrolled her son in the program so that he can "get [his] feet wet in the experience of learning a language...
...cites the play "Calling it Rape" and a speaker who worked on victim's rights legislation as new programs arising through the increased funding. "It's much more effective to have a play by students than it is for me to make a speech, or write new policies for that matter," she said...
...struggled for about a year scrounging up financial backing to launch a radically new idea in journalism: a weekly newsmagazine that aimed to summarize world events and organize them in pithy style. Now editors Luce and Hadden were putting to press the first issue of TIME, with House Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon on the cover. "It wasn't bad at all," Luce wrote later. "In fact, it was quite good. Somehow it all held together -- it made sense, it was interesting...
...establishment he feels. "As an impromptu translation in a French II oral exam," he writes, Robert Bly's translation of Mallarme "might eke out a passing grade, but as poetry in English, it fails the most rudimentary test...it doesn't even sound like the language of a native speaker." Throughout these essays, Dana Gioia names names. Much of his observation is as perceptive as his criticism is scathing. He recognizes that "American poetry now belongs to a subculture." And to escape that status, poetry writers must somehow appeal to prose readers...