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...movie What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? O'Connor's participation in the development of Archie's character has become so passionate that it frequently causes tension on the Family staff. At times he flatly refuses to perform a script that does not conform to his conception of the role. An example was last season's episode about Archie's being trapped in a stalled elevator with a middle-class black and a Puerto Rican girl about to give birth to a baby. It was used only after Lear overrode O'Connor...
Frequently when Black English sounds ungrammatical to white ears, it is merely conforming to its own rules. Thus, in the demonstrator's placard, the pronoun themself leaves off the standard English -ves ending because them already establishes plurality. Since Black English rarely uses suffixes, neat means the same as the Standard English noun neatness. Black English also does not differentiate between genders of pronouns, so it is perfectly correct for a speaker to say, "He a nice little girl." In unraveling these rules, however, linguists encounter a problem-almost nobody speaks "pure" Black English. Ghetto blacks, hearing their speech...
Although Harold Kanavos, president of the Cambridge Plaza Trust, agreed that there were long-term advantages to delaying construction of his projected hotel, he said that he was under economic pressure to start soon. He already has his permit and his building plans conform to Cambridge's building and zoning codes...
Because new departments and new fields within departments have developed since 1938, and because life in general does not always conform to written rules, the Dean of the Faculty must, in his words, apply the Graustein formula "flexibly." If a department has a chance to pick up a hotshot professor, it can borrow ahead on its Graustein number and get him while he's available, even if the next scheduled appointment in the department is several months or years hence. If a patron donates endowed chairs to a specific department, or if a particular field grows rapidly, the Dean...
...Rabbi Alvin Reines' concept of "poly-doxy" sounds very modern-you might call it "doing your own thing." But he fails to look at what our greatest teacher, history, has shown us. For thousands of years, there have been many movements and forces which did not conform to Torah standards. Yet only one factor has united Jews through the dark centuries of the exile in every corner of the world-a belief in Torah. Anyone who left the Torah fold was inevitably swallowed up by a Jew's eternal enemy, assimilation. Rabbi Reines may want...