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...after the jolts administered to U.S society by Watergate, recent publications in this country have produced something of an American counterpart to Orwell's essay. Like Orwell's response to World War II, these essays--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s"Politics and the American Language,"Henry Fairlie's "Arise, Ye Prisoners of Jargon," and Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking--are responses to the effects of political events on English as written and spoken in this country. But also, like Orwell, these writers realize that changes in the condition of language are due to much more basic causes than political changes, that...
Petrovek, as well as his counterpart in the Cornellnets, Steve Kelleher, were faced with a good deal of power play pressure as the referees called a total of 25 in the hard-hitting contest, including five situations where one team had a two-man advantage...
...oasis of sunny prosperity in the turbulent eastern Mediterranean. Nearly six months after the end of the fighting, Cyprus today is a wrecked dream-its airports still closed, its economy shattered, one-third of its people refugees in their own land. Greek Cypriot Leader Glafkos derides and his Turkish counterpart, Rauf Denktaş, had hoped to resume their interrupted peace talks during Christmas week but were unable to agree on a basis for further negotiations. TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof recently visited the troubled island. His report...
...structure grammar analyzed sentences independent of their relation to other sentences: for example, a passive sentence like "Max was crushed by the safe" would be parsed into subject-verb-prepositional phrase. Chomsky's contribution was to recognize that the same, easily described relationship between that sentence and its active counterpart, "The safe crushed Max," exists between countless other pairs of sentences. He conceived of "transformations" as simple devices to describe the relations between simple sentences like "The safe crushed Max" and complex ones like "Max was crushed by the safe," "What the safe did was crush...
...Springfield's heavyweight Tim Smith decisioned his Harvard counterpart, Kip Smith, to ice the victory...