Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orwell's essay. Like Orwell's response to World War II, these essays--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s"Politics and the American Language,"Henry Fairlie's "Arise, Ye Prisoners of Jargon," and Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking--are responses to the effects of political events on English as written and spoken in this country. But also, like Orwell, these writers realize that changes in the condition of language are due to much more basic causes than political changes, that in the end language is rooted in the nature of society itself. These two articles and a book--the most recent...
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in doing nothing...
...been joking with her about the language that blacks spoke in North America. Sometimes she would not understand a conversation because she could not comprehend the "Black English" we spoke. Ilda explained how she had learned English from textbooks bought before 1959. These books were based on English spoken in Britain. We laughed at her confession and immediately understood some of the difficulties in our communication...
Mosiello is serving a mandatory life sentence for the felony murder of a Weehawken waterfront tavern owner whom police found gagged, trussed and stuffed in the trunk of a '69 Cadillac. "It was obviously a professional job, a contract hit," claims the soft-spoken Mosiello, who had no previous arrests. "I did not do it." But the state said he did, a jury agreed, and Mosiello, the owner of a successful racing-engine design shop, had to begin a new career behind a 20-ft. wall in Trenton...
Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but granite-willed wife. Here he is played by Joseph Bologna, she by the adept but woefully misused Barbara Harris. Hubby coaches a hapless professional basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. He makes a good enough living, however. His suburban home is roomy, wellappointed, and chock-full of kids-three when...