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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge those few critics who still differentiate between "literary" and "journalistic" writing to read your Nov. 19 cover story on the big blackout. It's poetic. SISTER MARY ROSELYN, R.S.M. Department of English Mercy College Detroit...
...same language. No one would agree with Wilde more than a Swedish lexicographer immersed in a mighty labor of scholarship that has occupied his last 26 years and will not be completed for at least another two. He is Ingvar Gullberg, and his two-part work is a Swedish-English and English-Swedish dictionary of technical words and terms used in business, industry, administration, education and research. We were pleased to hear last week that one of his most important sources is TIME...
Gullberg, official English translator in the Swedish Foreign Office, has published the first volume, a 1,246-page book containing 130,000 extensive entries, which is unique in that, where necessary, he renders the Swedish in both the Queen's English and the American variety. It has been hailed by scholars, businessmen, diplomats, technicians and others who work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words...
...TIME gets what he calls the filter treatment. He goes through the magazine line by line, cover to cover every week, noting every new word and term and the context in which it is used. New words, he says, are coming into usage at an unprecedented rate, particularly in English, the prevalent language of commerce and technology. Virtually all the space-age terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait...
...suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge ahead...