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...work will not be played at Chichester itself until later this month. Let the bishop be on guard: he will need to assemble a highly capable cathedral choir. Aside from the challenge of the score, there is the problem of pronunciation (for non-Hebrew speakers) as posed in Bernstein's notes: "H-slightly guttural, though not so guttural as ch, which is pronounced as in German (Buch). R-rolled if possible, as in Italian...
...CAREFUL WRITER by Theodore M. Bernstein. 487 pages. Atheneum...
...knows most of the answers is Ted Bernstein, assistant managing editor of the New York Times and the paper's unofficial grammarian.* His wry bulletins to the staff have disciplined loose Times talk for 14 years. Compiled into two books, Watch Your Language and More Language That Needs Watching, they have sold nearly 100,000 copies and have established Bernstein as a guide whose influence is not confined to journalism. The Careful Writer could be subtitled The Compleat Bernstein...
...book's 2,000-odd entries are alphabetized, but that is about the only concession to order. Otherwise, Bernstein consulted only the rules defining "clarity, precision and logical presentation"-plus the generally reliable canons of his own taste. This makes for a journey past the shoals and promontories of English usage that is more casual than comprehensive, but frequently edifying and unfailingly illuminated by the Bernstein...
...amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...