Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of his success to his sense of theatrical immediacy, acquired during twelve years as an actor. Darkly handsome, with black curly hair and threatening eyebrows, he was born in the grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
Antiquated Grammar. Despite these nostalgic credentials, the board's choice of McGuffey's touched off a row that last week ranged from village hall to statehouse. Incensed that the board would ignore "developments that have been made in reading during the last 50 years," State School Superintendent Angus Rothwell threatened to withhold state aid, which comes to about $10,000. Taxpayers threatened to impeach the school board. Principal Raymond Oestreich attacked the McGuffey's Readers because of "antiquated grammar, misspelled words and poor punctuation." One teacher refused to use it. And state legal advisers, who want...
...declaring the doctrine of "less is more," gave modern architecture its greatest discipline and refinement-the spareness visible in glass and metal in any American city. And German-born Walter Gropius, with the artists, architects and craftsmen of his famed Bauhaus at Dessau in the '205, established the grammar of design suited to modern mass production. They made simplicity and austerity and a faithfulness to function the liberating marks of the International Style...
Since joining the Faculty as an instructor in 1959, Watkins has taught courses in Greek and Latin comparative grammar, Cuneiform Hittite, and Phonemics. In 1954-55 he studied in Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship...
...physician. Though the two were obviously incompatible, he later insisted that they had a telepathic link, were aware of the same events happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists on the subject to his dates. He brought an astonishing collection of girls to the Village, bagged with unobtrusive efficiency at a drugstore in Manhattan...