Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admissions committee recommends that applicants have taken four years each of English and math, and three each of laboratory science, history, and foreign language, said Marlyn M. Lewis, director of admissions...
Griffin had to adjust outside the pool as well after returning from Germany. "You suddenly have your private concerns," he says. He noted that he had to adjust to thinking and writing critically in English again, and not to put the verbs at the end of sentences...
Gregory Rabassa, the eminent translator and authority on Spanish literature, says Cela "kept the Spanish novel alive during those awful years." That period, of course, encompasses the Spanish Civil War and the wrenching adjustments afterward to the Franco dictatorship. Cela, raised in Madrid by his Spanish father and English mother, was a university student in 1936 when the war erupted. He joined what readers of Hemingway or Orwell will recognize as the wrong side, taking up arms with Franco against the Republic. He continued his education in conflict, hearing the oxymoronic battle cry of some of his fellow soldiers: Viva...
...decide to pretend that I do not understand English...
...also cannot figure out why she considered five English seminars "perfect," but in her delusions, she did. Fortunately, I was there to guide her into the wonderland of the Core. And how would she know about...