Sikhs opened their gurdwara for the coppers to change their clothes in.Bradfordians knew that 2001 had led to falls in reputation, university applications, tourism and perhaps investment.
The story of American English is one of eternal rises and falls in reputation, and Bailey, the author of several books on English, traces our assorted ways of speaking across the country, concentrating on a different area for each 50-year period, starting in Chesapeake Bay and ending in Los Angeles.
It is an interesting collusion: a school which, though indisputably distinguished, has always lacked some of the star power of Juilliard, Curtis, and Eastman, is going to become the research center for a composer who, though unquestionably important, has fallen behind in reputation to his onetime rival, Shostakovich.
In October 2012 Hewett wrote in the Daily Telegraph of a "calamitous fall" in Tippett's reputation since his death.
The fall in Tagore's English reputation is not hard to explain.
For example, when two people fall in love, the families investigate the reputation of suitor.
Progress in AI has continued, despite the rise and fall of its reputation in the eyes of government bureaucrats and venture capitalists.
Amin and Jamila fall in love, but Jamila has a dubious reputation as a divorced woman whose grandmother slept with mzungus.
They vary considerably in reputation.
Before becoming one of those Englishmen who fall in love with America and never fall out again, he made a reputation in London as an essayist who was both thoughtful and iconoclastic.
