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...Bloomfield Hills Country Club-social GHQ of the auto industry elite-the seasonal small talk about football shifted abruptly last week to an even more popular sport: guessing who will be the next president and who the next chairman of General Motors. G.M. itself kicked off the speculation with an intriguing round of promotions among its top officials. Upward bound...
...between reading by "literary people" and "ordinary people," the former allegedly finding artistic value in the book and the latter not. Because the four-letter words are so undeniably prevalent in the book, the prosecuting attorney probed the relationship between four-letter words and learned people. He asked Professor Bloomfield of Harvard, "Have you ever heard four letter words in the Faculty club...
...Morton Bloomfield, professor of English and an authority on linguistics, was first on the stand yesterday. Where the two witnesses on the previous day had testified as to Tropic's literary merit, Bloomfield was there to discuss Miller's use of "four-letter-words...
London's intent in bringing Bloomfield before the court was to prove that there are "meaningless and irrational" social conventional about use of some words...
Words of Latin and French derivation referring to the sex act and bodily organs are acceptable in English. Bloomfield testified, but words of Angio-Saxon origin with identical meanings are tabu. He also said that certain words common to lower social classes are slowly becoming more acceptable in modern literature...