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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN...
...Children ask of the story what they ask of a dream," observed Poet Randall Jarrell, "that it satisfy their wishes." For more than a century, Hans Christian Andersen has satisfied the wishes of the Western world's children. One hundred years after his death he remains the unsurpassed master of the fairy tale. Who has not smiled ruefully at the imperial victim of The Emperor's New Clothes, or identified with The Princess on the Pea? What youth remains ignorant of Andersen's articulate birds and magic elves? Yet, as Cambridge Professor Elias Bredsdorff brilliantly demonstrates, these...
...spotty familiarity with a wide range of writing on language, is no asset. The meat of his hinted-at theory is a rediscovery of Charles Peirce's linguistic philosophy. Percy says Peirce has been completely overlooked by modern linguists. His ignorance of the literature hurts him here--Henning Andersen, for one, has used a Peircean model of language acquisition in his work in generative phonology--and it hurts him everywhere he tries to argue on the linguists own turf. Percy adopts the jargon of the professionals and scholars without the sense, and ultimately he can only argue from...
...brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
...situation at Andersen was difficult from the beginning, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. Base personnel were obviously unprepared for the arrival of such large numbers of refugees. But despite the confusion and complaints (mostly from Americans) about the two-hour mess lines and the quality of the food, the operation got off to a reasonably good start. The British Commonwealth Wives' Club and the Catholic Ladies Sodality pitched in to serve rice, act as interpreters and deliver messages. Other volunteers served as cooks and baby sitters, changing diapers and burping infants. One of the few offers the military refused...