Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's an effort; that's nice," said O'Leary, "but if they will not practice French, they will not speak this language." Little French is spoken west of Ontario, and many people in the western provinces resent having to learn another language. Some feel that the government takes their taxes in order to "shove French down their throats." This attitude is obviously not conducive to the preservation of Canadian unity...
What about the government's stipulation that federal civil servants speak both languages? Speaking English and French "at the level of federal functionaries" is not "bilingualism around Canada," O'Leary said...
...loved poets above all others." The popular image of Schubert is of a genial, easy-going sort who hardly realized his own worth. In fact, "the texts of his songs hint at the bitterness within him ... Sorrow and happiness, humility and arrogance, modesty and pride, contemplation and passion speak to us out of the music...
Emily M. Schneider '80, who will speak on the work of a Puerto Rican poet, Julia de Borgos, said she had become involved because "there's a paucity of things about women going on here...
...distorted our understanding of the purpose of the city. The city is the instrument of impersonal life, the mold in which diversity and complexity of persons, interests and tastes become available as social experience. The fear of impersonality is breaking that mold. In their nice, neat gardens, people speak of the horrors of London or New York; here in Highgate or Scarsdale, one knows one's neighbors; true, not much happens, but life is safe. It is retribalization...