Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...
...Papa belong me fella, stop on top; name belong You he tabu...
...Pidgin belong you he come down along ground all same...
...despite the earnest statement of the editors that it is "one which, we are confident, is of much importance and will be of interest to most students," it is precisely because the article is a piece of reporting that it doesn't belong. There are no conclusions drawn, only statements of alleged fact--not at all what one is looking for or what one expects to find in such a magazine as the Advocate...
Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the torrent of Oxford language which pours forth from this round and rumpled gentleman but seldom succeeds in keeping up with his pace. Berlin himself observes that his audiences "first struggle desperately but then sink under, staring with glazed eyes." One intense lady became so desperate that she finally interrupted...