Word: follettes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUNG AMERICAN POETS. Edited by Paul Carroll. 507 pages. Follett...
...unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes, suggestion and chestnut should be pronounced cloes, sudjestion and chessnut...
MODERN AMERICAN USAGE by Wilson Follett. 436 pages. Hill & Wang...
...Wilson Follett, a sometime professor, magazine columnist and critic who undertook to write Modern American Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee...
...North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports that it has sold 100,000 such books-an indication that they are moving well throughout the field. Other successful textbooks have been put out by Scott Foresman, Macmillan, Follett, Chandler, and Holt, Rinehart & Winston...