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...this fight has come Basic English, Gloalingo, or arrant linguistic imperialism, depending on whether Richards. Time magazine, or an irreconcilable Anglophobe is speaking. At any rate, Basic English is undeniably (and amazingly) the reduction of English to 850 basic words through which any thought can be expressed. It is in addition the end-product of a voyage of discovery which has taken Professor Richards around the world, and from a painstaking consideration of the meaning of meaning itself to cartoon work with Disney...
...page dissent, uncompromising James Marshall, Republican lawyer and former board president, called the majority decision "little less than condoning . . . bigotry. . . ." Said he: May Quinn should have been fired. The New York Herald Tribune seconded him: "So mild a rebuke for such an arrant affront to the cause of mutual self-respect constitutes a grave setback to the cause of tolerance in our public schools...
...London's streets the people quipped: this is "Salute-the-Government-Week." London's press did not like the salute in the House. Said the Observer: "The Prime Minister has seldom acted more unwisely. . . ." New Statesmen & Nation: "Most arrant nonsense. . . ." Time & Tide: "Unfortunate. . . "Daily Mirror: "Parliament might as well go out of business altogether. . . ." Daily Worker: "Now there is a vote of confidence in the House but lack of confidence in the country...
Imagine wasting over a full page on such arrant trash! Who in tarnation cares whether Señor Dali has a secret life or whether he has any life...
...McBride's. Further inquiry revealed that these were not samples of speech from Groton, Nebraska, or even from Brooklyn. "No, they were South American, I think...I can't remember the boys' names; it all happened too fast." A rapid peeling off of the House names revealed that the arrant gentlemen were from Dunster...