Word: sweetest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic, at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland: "We are on the verge of embracing a second-language culture. I am referring of course to Spanish that endures beyond a first generation to a second and third. For an individual, mastery of many languages is one of the sweetest rewards of scholarship. But for a society, separate linguistics seem almost always to drive a wedge between groups of people. We can cite Switzerland, perhaps, as a nation that has managed to contain these linguistic tensions. But almost every other example, from Quebec to the Basque country, from India to the land...
...American rockers or renditions of early Beatles smashes performed in styles that never stray far from the records. There is, however, a Beatles version of an obscure Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas single, a Lennon-McCartney composition titled I'll Be on My Way. It is the sweetest surprise of the package. With a chorus that sounds as simple and sentimental as a child's school rhyme ("As the June light/ Turns to moonlight/ I'll be on my way"), the song shows the Beatles at their most wistful...
DIED. Charlie Spivak, 77, chubby, cheerful, honey Atoned .horn player and bandleader, billed as "the Sweetest Trumpet in the World"; of cancer; in Caesars Head...
...book's cover boasts a huge picture of an impeccably clad, somewhat arrogant-looking executive, presumably Molloy himself. If the book does anything, it portrays the vapidness of the "success" for which this man lives. Dickinson said, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Perhaps this explains Molloy's peculiar fascination with the subject...
...Slavic immigrants. Montenegro is a Laurel-and-Hardy jalopy of a film, putting along impudently and then suddenly stalling, out of everything but gall. In these timid days, gall may be enough, especially with Makavejev behind the camera and Anspach in front, giving one of the year's sweetest, smartest, sexiest performances...