The History of the World. A Survey of Man's Record. Edited by Dr. H. F. Helmolt. Volume VIII. Western Europe— The Atlantic Ocean, (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1907. Pp. ix, 432.)

1908 ◽  
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New York ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Volume Viii

André Martinet (1908–1999)

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
Johannes Klare
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New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Linguistics ◽  
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Important Position ◽  
Research Director

André Martinet holds an important position in the history of linguistics in the twentieth century. For more than six decades he decisively influenced the development of linguistics in France and in the world. He is one of the spokespersons for French linguistic structuralism, the structuralisme fonctionnel. The article focuses on a description and critical appreciation of the interlinguistic part of Martinet’s work. The issue of auxiliary languages and hence interlinguistics had interested Martinet greatly from his youth and provoked him to examine the matter actively. From 1946 onwards he worked in New York as a professor at Columbia University and a research director of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). From 1934 he was in contact with the Danish linguist and interlinguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943). Martinet, who went back to Paris in 1955 to work as a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), increasingly developed into an expert in planned languages; for his whole life, he was committed to the world-wide use of a foreign language that can be learned equally easily by members of all ethnic groups; Esperanto, functioning since 1887, seemed a good option to him.

Catching a Market: The Publishing History of Catch-22

Prospects ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 475-525
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
World Series ◽  
Berlin Crisis ◽  
New Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Catch 22

September of 1961 brought welcome relief from the Berlin Crisis in the Oform of two distinctly American recreations: the World Series and the fall book season. As always, both seemed to focus on New York City, and the New York media brought excitement and suspense to fit both seasons: excitement – as Roger Maris attempted to break Babe Ruth's record of sixty home runs – and suspense, as Simon & Schuster ran eye-catching but mysterious ads for a new novel, revealing nothing more than the title – Catch-22. Everyone knew what Maris's quest meant, but no one seemed to know what “CATCH-22” meant.

Free Market Flavor

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Free Market ◽  
World History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Cultural Expressions

This chapter reflects on the poetry of the palate, which it says is part of our palette of personal and cultural expressions. Tasting your favorite dish and hearing your favorite poem both have aesthetic qualities that make part of the poetry of everyday life. A language of tastes from immigrants' home countries is a marketable currency—and it adds not only flavors but also delicious words to our English vocabulary. Two books by Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World and Salt: A World History, make the case that the entire history of the world can be told through a single food. Foodways can provide a lens through which to explore geography and cultural history. In New York, world history, immigrant history, and shifting demographics create an ever-changing range of eateries and restaurants offering a panoply of tastes, often concocting new flavors by mixing ingredients.

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