Fallacious frivolity for the easily amused
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Column by Jim Bishop This weakly EML (English as a Maltreated Language) experimentation generates considerable reader response, and I’m grateful.
Search Results for English
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Join the ‘Jane Austen Book Club’ today!
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The leaves begin to fall to earth. The air turns crisp. ‘Tis time for a deluge of Relationship Movies – our autumnal harvest of Sensitive Young People getting their hearts stomped on, valiantly facing unspeakable angst, revealing their innermost secrets, and in the end finding their One…
BC professor writes about the unexplained
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Story by Chris Graham The tale of the legendary origins of a mysterious marine-research institute is the focus of a new novel by Bridgewater College professor Ed Huffstetler.
EMU legacy passes from parents to children
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Story by Jim Bishop Alumni of Eastern Mennonite University are sending their children to the school in numbers that far surpass most colleges nationwide.
Beloved former EMU professor passes
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Story by Jim Bishop “A teacher in whose classroom wit and wisdom vied for supremacy.” That was one of many tributes paid to G. Irvin (“G.I.”) Lehman at a recognition and retirement dinner held in his honor May 1, 1980 at Eastern Mennonite University. Dr. Lehman died Monday at Oak Lea Nursing Home in Harrisonburg….
Anne Hathaway’s a very becoming Jane
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Jane Austen wrote only six novels, but nearly 40 major TV and film versions have been based on them. For a lady born in the 1700s, she’s always been a hot item in Hollywood, and the latest bodice-ripper, “Becoming Jane,” is currently playing at the Visualite in…
Former Globetrotter giving back to Staunton home
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Story by Chris Graham Jerry Venable was a shining star on the basketball court – averaging 15.5 points a game in two years at Kansas State, getting drafted by the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, playing five years on the most famous hoops team in the world, the Harlem Globetrotters. But the Staunton native concedes that he…
Reading the megasite-study tea leaves
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Augusta County officials have vigorously resisted making details of a 400-page report on a proposed industrial megasite in the Weyers Cave area public.
Go ye into the world and smile …
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The 2006-07 academic year at Eastern Mennonite University is almost history. To this observer, each seems to go by faster than the previous one. Sunday, the 89th annual commencement at EMU, will be my 36th to cover in my role as public-information officer. I’ve heard many speeches and watched…
Reciting those wonderful words of life
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop While preparing for an upcoming talk, I pulled the thick black volume off the shelf, wiped dust off its leather-bound covers with my name embossed in faded gold lettering, opened it, and a flood of memories poured forth.
