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After three weeks, students begin to drill from tape recordings by themselves. In class, Sweet goes on with the slides, adding more case endings and turning to prepositions. "Puer ignem ramo facit," says Sweet, showing a boy making a fire with a branch. "Puer ignem cum fratre facit," he says, showing a boy and his brother lighting a fire. "Quis facit?" he asks. "Puer," says the class. "Quid puer facit?" "Ignem." "Quomodo facit...
...games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...
...Facit salutem...