Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) introduced a gramatically flawed amendment to the Clean Air Act several weeks ago, Sen. John H. Chafee (D-R.I.)--reportedly called him on the carpet for using a split infinitive. Had Gore gone to Yale, Chafee told the Senate floor, his grammar might not be so atrocious. But Gore--displaying more with than he had in his unsuccessful presidential bid--got the last laugh. Gore asked Chafee where he received his second two years of schooling, implying that Yale was just a junior college and earning a hearty laugh from the gallery...
...Lithuanians boast a finer nationalist pedigree than Vytautas Landsbergis. Descended from a long line of intellectuals, the new President is only the latest Landsbergis to agitate for an independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...
...text is sprinkled with periodic errors in grammar, which do little to increase the book's credibility. To pick an example more or less at random, Andrew Kopkind's essay on "Living with the Bomb: The World According to Bok" reads: "When Harvard University encounters nuclear weaponry, they do so as equals," Even if Harvard were a "they," the two halves of the sentence wouldn't agree. Sloppy proofing cannot help but suggest sloppy thinking...