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Focuses on `The Survivor,' a Yiddish-language newspaper in New York. Comments from its publisher Samuel Norich; The difficulty of finding an editor for the newspaper after the death of Mordechai Strigler; The estimated number of Yiddish speakers in the United States.

Discusses the changes made on the periodical 'PMLA,' the official journal of the Modern Language Association, as of May 1, 1991. Aim of the editors in introducing the changes; Changes introduced in the review of papers submitted for publication; Reason why other scholars believe that the need to publish articles on unconventional topics made the periodical less readable.

ONCE upon a time, a young man went for a walk. It was December 1933, and an 18-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor put on a pair of hobnail boots and a secondhand greatcoat, gathered up his rucksack and left London on a ship bound for Rotterdam, where he planned to travel 1,400 miles to Istanbul -- on foot. He had virtually no money; at best, he'd arrive in, say, Munich to find his mother had sent him $:5. But what he did have was an outgoing nature, a sense of adventure, an affinity for languages and a broad network of friends of friends. ''If I lived on bread and cheese and apples,'' he later wrote, ''jogging along on fifty pounds a year like Lord Durham with a few noughts knocked off, there would even be some cash left over for papers and pencils and an occasional mug of beer. A new life! Freedom! Something to write about!'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on changes made to the format of several Chinese-language daily newspapers based in New York City. Change from vertically printed text, which was read from right to left, to horizontally printed text that reads from left to right; Papers that open from the right instead of the left; Replacement of traditional Chinese characters with English characters in some dailies; Reactions of Chinese American readers to the changes.