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But this is not a book of descriptive phonetics; it is for the learner who aspires to speak the “best’ English he can, and the selection of these two dialects would be hard to fault.
Zapp, a jetsetting, starfucking, and intellectually luminous American deconstructionist whose charm lies in his gleeful disregard for scholarly convention, aspires to become the highest-paid English professor in the world.
This book aspires to be not only an encyclopedia but also an almanac, a biographical dictionary, a historical monument in and of itself.
It's not oral history; the author is there on every page, as enticed by vanity as any journalist is--maybe more so, because his is the kind of journalism that aspires most nakedly to the status of literature.
It's the way McCain aspires to draw political reform, environmentalism, an internationalist foreign policy, and more together in a call for renewed civic engagement.