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Harvard represents the traditional America, dating back to its Anglo-Saxon heritage. Succeeding in the United States in many ways means assimilation, achieving some ideal of what an American should be, and Harvard is an integral part of that ideal. This University was founded by the original American stock of New England. Its ivy-covered brick walls, wood-panelled rooms and highbrow image are part of the traditional English heritage and elitist manner still maintained in this nation of equals...
...complained of immigrants snarling a weird yiddish. (I like to think it was my ancestors who annoyed this 19th century man's sensibilities.) At the 350th anniversary celebration, Charles, Prince of Wales will speak at one of the main convocations, the one dedicated to celebrating Harvard's Anglo-Saxon roots...
...television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter words like--well, merde...
...most popular South African leader among the country's white minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations of violence? Gavin Relly, the chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above but to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the nation...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...