Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stewart has collected a set of sobriquets just as she has Depression glass and vintage linens: nabob of nesting, for example, and doyenne of domesticity. And she has earned a reputation for being too perfect, a control freak and an overachiever, who while still in grammar school organized all the neighborhood kids' birthday parties. With her image and life so open, she has become ripe for parody and criticism. She is the subject of a recent scathing, unauthorized biography, Just Desserts. Stewart says she finds the criticism boring: "It's sexist, jealous and stupid, and it all comes from...
...Course Least Likely to Help You at a Final Club Award: to John Huehnergard's "Aramaic B: Targumic Aramaic," which promises "basic grammar of the Targum Onqelos." Whatever-as if we didn't learn all that crap in first grade...
...stifling conformity of the adult world Benjamin was being asked to join. The word itself was an epithet, as in "Plastic Pat" Nixon or these Jimi Hendrix lyrics from the song If 6 Was 9, talked-sung with a straight face and an up-the-Establishment disregard for grammar: "White collared conservative flashing down the street,/Pointing their plastic finger...
...says he wants every student to move beyond translation and grammar into "linguistic reasoning" and culture, calling language "the cornerstone of a Harvard education...
...frustrated when I consider Reubens' fate in the context of those of other famous figures. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and actor Matthew Broderick each played an intimate and condemnable part in a causal chain that resulted in the death of a human being. Star of "Frasier" Kelsey Grammar has been arrested more times for drug charges than I care to count. None of these men has seen his career suffer...