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(By Irvin Shaw) Exercises

1. Look up the following references for relevant cultural and historical information: The Third Reich, Rheims, West Point, V-day, Mother’s Day, Listerine, California Riesling, Cadillac, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Harvard, Princeton.

2. Paraphrase or explain the following stretches of text paying special attention to the underlined parts of the sentences.

          1. With his German blood, Mary Jordache thought.

          2. Jordach had decreed a holiday.

          3. No other birthday in the family was celebrated by more than a grunt.

          4. Gretchen in a lace, white shirtwaist was looking as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.

          5. They showered each other with gifts for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and Mother’s Day.

          6. They … took holidays at the seashore en masse. The father commuted to business every day in a dark suit and had a great deal of life insurance.

          7. None of this was completely formulated in her mind, but it was the misty standard of reference against which she compared her own circumstances.

          8. The rich were out of her reach and the poor were beneath her contempt.

          9. Rather they were an abrasive group collected almost at random for a voyage which none of them had chosen and during which the best that could be hoped for was that hostilities could be kept to a minimum.

9) The top existed, a place with boundaries, densities, privileges. When you got there you recognized it and your arrival was greeted with hosannahs and Cadillacs by earlier arrivals.

10) He was a connoisseur of others’ gifts and an explorer of his own.

11) As an athlete, he was top man in one event, the two-twenty hurdles, but in a big city high school, he doubted if he could even make the team

12) He could feint and find split-second holes

13) He had to plan to be liked, to be agreeable to people and seem interested in them, and cheerfully take on thankless jobs… to get people to appreciate him.

14) He felt he was built in two layers, one that only he knew about and the other which was displayed to the world.

15) … he had the uneasy feeling that if he were ever invited to a party with a group of preppies he would stand out immediately for what he was, a small-town hick, pretending to be something he wasn’t.

16) … he didn’t agonize over which tie to wear … He was all of one piece and when he did something he didn’t have to make a painful and hesitant selection of attitudes within himself before he did it.

3. Suggest Russian equivalents of the following words and phrases from the text.

- to surrender (to smb/ smth); bring smb to surrender

- to specify smth, specification

- to be in full control of smth (one’s mind, body etc)

- to loiter; a loiterer

- to launch smb on a career

- to labour smth/ over smth

- to direct smb’s life

- to depend on smb for smth/ to do smth

- to flunk a course

- to have a gift / talent for smth/ doing smth

- to maintain smb’s notion/ opinion of smb (as …)

- to estimate smb/ smth; live up to smb’s estimate

- to agonize over smth

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