Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaking derogatorily of Stalin. In 1953 Stalin died and Solzhenitsyn was released from camp and exiled to East Asia with millions of other political prisoners. Following Krushchev's repudiation of the Stalin regime in 1956 Solzhenitsyn returned home to Rostov and was permitted to reach mathematics at the local grammar school. There he started a writing career which so far has produced four novels, several books of short stories, and a play. He also contracted cancer (the progress of which was arrested), won a Nobel Prize which he has not been able to leave the Soviet Union to receive...
...recent article ("Two Women Liberate Church Course," Nov, II) mentions a proposal by some members of our community calling for a ban on the use of man, men, and masculine pronouns "to refer to all people." This proposal to recast part of the grammar of the English language reflects a concern which we as linguists would like to try to alleviate...
...fact that the masculine is the unmarked gender in English (or that the feminine is unmarked in the language of the Tunica Indians) is simply a feature of grammar. It is unlikely to be an impediment to any change in the patterns of the sexual division of labor toward which our society may wish to evolve. There is really no cause for anxiety or pronoun-envy on the part of those seeking such changes...
...mine there. The city hasn't been able to run anything else for the people; there's no reason to expect that it would run this well. Jumping into it would be turning little children's lives over to the same people who are ruining older lives in grammar and high school...
...GRAMMAR. "I am a linguistic pessimist. Unguided, our language will degenerate into more and more debilitating imprecision. I hold that for every instance of evolution toward precision there are three cases of devolution into sloppiness . . . Grammar and syntax can teach one how to make words behave, not just correctly, but interestingly, tellingly, gracefully, efficiently, variously." SEX. "The community has a stake in one's interpersonal relations, because it is a fabric woven of such relations. The adolescent must not be allowed to argue that he can do what he wants to with his own body. His body...