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...cleaned Wed. 12:30 p.m. Your maid was their to veryfey the statement." That sort of thing, says Barzun in the Atlantic Monthly, may be bad writing, but it is nevertheless harmless. The real danger to language "does not come from such trifles. It comes rather from the college-bred millions who . . . circulate the prevailing mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax that passes for prose." Barzun calls this "the infinite duplication of dufferism...
Magsaysay grew in the job; so did his abhorrence at the corruption bred by the Quirino regime: so did his ambition. Filipinos began talking of Magsaysay as presidential material, and Magsaysay liked the sound of it. It was soon no secret that Ramon Magsaysay was America's boy. For a time, U.S. Colonel Edward Lansdale of the U.S. Air Force took a desk in Magsaysay's Defense Office, became virtually his mentor and publicity man. Polished, precise William Lacey. Councillor of the U.S. Embassy, became the man to whom Magsaysay turned daily for counsel...
Even in their native Australia, only one platypus couple (Jack and Jill) have bred in captivity, and they produced only one offspring. But the Bronx curators were not discouraged. When they got three live platypuses in 1947 (TIME, June 9, 1947), they devised elaborate plans for breeding the two females. One of the three, Betty, died of a cold. But Penelope and Cecil, the male, seemed to adjust themselves gradually to the alien Bronx. Penelope and Cecil were fed extravagantly on worms, insect larvae, frogs and water plants. In summer each had an outdoor private swimming pool, and in winter...
Fortnight ago, ending his second tour of Australia, he sounded a bitter note. Riffling through his press notices he read that though his Schubert had "surprising warmth." his Mozart was merely "well-bred," his Bach...
...management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price of one. But he has held on. Fox has run the Post a little more than a year, but has already so bred his personality and purpose into the paper that it has become the Chicago Tribune of the East Coast...