English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not, from what I have
read, taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early
age for effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is projected to take over in a
reasonable period of time on its own; I have
read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be shifting to Chinese).
In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith reports:» If there was any doubt that we live in a
reasonable facsimile of the Gilded
Age, it disappeared Monday night during «Greeting Card,» Aaron Young's enormous paint - by - motorcycle spectacle in the vast, emptied - out drill hall of the Seventh...
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