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...tenement, but he spends most of his time, day and night, out on the streets. Whether peddling wilted flowers in a local restaurant or just fast-talking a pretty girl, Angelo is a born hustler who has a fleet foot in each of two worlds-the gypsy and the Anglo-and who has no time to be a child. There is a plot here-Angelo and Brother Michael trail another gypsy, a garrulous, carbuncular drunk named Steve, to recover the family ring-but this is mainly a device to give some shape to the anecdotes and insights. In an ordinary...
Another researcher, Dr. Leon Bisenberg '67, said that death rates show that minorities on the average live five years less than whites "for the sin of not being Anglo in America...
...recoiling from a relationship which it feels has become too close for comfort. In the latest surprise attack in a literal war of words, the French have outlawed several strains of "franglais," English words that have infiltrated the French language. Last month, Communication Minister Georges Fillioud listed 97 Anglo American radio and television terms that are now off-limits to the French...
Aside from the official Anglo-American retinue, only Gerald and Betty Ford came to lunch. Annenberg had joked that for every gadabout he invited to lunch with his royal pals, he made ten or 25 enemies. (Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, expecting even more ill will from his big civic lunch the next day, said he thus "made 350 friends and 3 million enemies," in all "enough to make some of us hope it never happens again.") After lunch, as the Annenbergs' staff of 50 cleared away the maple-soufflé dishes and champagne (1970 Dom Perignon) glasses...
Robinson lived in Mather House last semester during his stay at Harvard. Before that, he taught for a decade at Yale, in addition to stints at Cornell and Stanford. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he is the author of a textbook on Anglo-Saxon, two bibliographies of writings on Old English, and more than 50 articles on various topics concerning the English language...