Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whenever a language expert begins pushing "standards" of English usage [Aug. 22], he is actually telling us what his standards are and what biases he holds concerning the language...
Ironically, the procedure by which the courts could call on HEW for expert help had been regarded as a significant development in the drive for integration. By taking cases in groups, this approach would save time. Since the programs would be created by the Office of Education's personnel, they obviously would be in compliance with federal regulations. Finch and Mitchell seemed to be blunting a new and apparently important weapon. Word passed within the Justice Department that they had acted out of political pressure from Southern leaders. That feeling arose because Mitchell, as Nixon's campaign manager...
...mind must go unanswered. The feeling is that he is wrestling with his soul, trying to figure out just how things went sour in his five-year presidency. Where did he lose touch? What went wrong in Viet Nam? Ronnie Dugger, owner of the liberal Texas Observer and an expert Lyndonologist, speculates: "He has given up on current opinion and retreated into history. With his memoirs, he is going to try to make as strong a case as possible for his decisions, particularly about the war. He is plunged into self-justification...
...Shavian sublime and the G.B.S. ridiculous are both visible in the two latest products of the Shaw scholastic industry. Dr. Stanley Weintraub, a leading Shavian expert in the U.S., has culled biographical bits from the detritus of Shaw's mountainous writings to make a paste-and-scissors "autobiography." British Historian R. J. Minney has formed a pattern of sorts from some industriously gathered anecdotal bits. Though the Shavian shavings do not quite add up to the beard of the prophet, Weintraub's book at least proves that Shaw was perhaps the greatest autobiographer who never wrote...
...HIGH CHAPARRAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A camel? In High Chaparral country? Right. A sweet-talking Irish cavalry trooper, played by Frank Gorshin, sells the four-footed version of the Brooklyn Bridge to Uncle Buck, claiming the animal is expert at cattle herding. Uncle Buck buys both the story and the camel -hoof, line and stinker. Repeat...