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...Though Shaw's proposed "alfabet" never got beyond the discussion stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
...taking a room in a dingy bed-and-breakfast place with a eat-loving woman, and later settling down with an amiable middle-aged prostitute and her dog Trixie. All this local colour and his own quiet virtue and the origin of his criminal status in humanitarian hatred of war rather than the more normal roots of crime, make a refreshingly original atmosphere for a thriller...
...trick accidentally when one of his drawing papers was stained, Cozens found it a useful method of getting his students to concentrate on the main shapes of an imaginary landscape instead of on niggling outlines. "In Nature," he wrote, "forms are not distinguished by lines but by shape and colour." Antedating impressionism by more than a century, Cozens might be called its great-grandfather. His students and his son John Robert imitated Cozens' spontaneity and broad brush work; Turner and John Constable imitated theirs, and the French impressionists took over from there...
...sing it and I mean he really would sing it..... So when I finished the tune I wheeled around to Ray and said -'Gate' during my concerts I want you to come out and sing Stormy Weather..... 'Oh Gawd' -that kid almost turned 'my colour (as they spell it 'over thar').... He said -'Mee sing with your band?... I said 'Er'wa -'Yea Man' -Now 'tare out over there in the corner and warm your pipes up so's they'll be fine and mellow...
...events than toward the past's tradition of them. Sir Walter's hope for the universities is that Christian teachers and students, seeking "new symbols" for old values, may "play the role of a 'creative minority,' from which the whole community may gradually take colour...