Word: ya
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ground for actors, producers, and directors. It is a sort of preparatory school for major HDC productions. At present, however, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, is helping the organization to return to its original purpose. He has given the members five original plays written in his English Ya playwriting course which they will consider for production in the spring, and has been helping the group with their work...
...word of the language: "Hardly had I climbed into a rickshaw than I saw riding in another along the Bund a Negro who looked exactly like a Harlemite. I stood up in my rickshaw and yelled. 'Hey man!' He stood up in his rickshaw and yelled, 'What ya sayin'?' We passed each other in the crowded street, and I never saw him again...
...almost ready to pack up and go home. Her American pupils, she reported, "greet me with anything from 'The top of the morning to you' to 'Tallyho,' and occasionally when they are changing classes, a head pokes through the doorway and calls, 'Hi ya, ma'am, what's the scoop?' or something equally imbecilic...
...official taps on the saucer and calls, "Are you there?" and the tune that cuts in immediately is: "I hear ya knockin' but ya can't come in." Announcer: "Have you come to conquer the world?" Tune: "Don't want the world to have and hold." Announcer: "The Secretary of Defense has just said_" Tune: "Ain't it a shame?" Announcer: "I believe the spaceman has a final parting word." Tune: "See you later, alligator...
...liberalism" of the past, for this has proved completely inadequate. The U.S., says Leslie Fiedler, has passed through "an age of innocence," when the intellectual, in his role as critic, performed only half his function. "It was easy," says Fiedler, "for intellectuals to criticize the black reactionaries and the Ya hoos, but the intellectual's duty was to do more than that-to criticize the en lightened people, to criticize his own side." The dogma of liberalism was that the liberal could do no wrong, and for some the day of disillusionment came only with the fall of Alger...