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Lakoff is Harvard's only full-time specialist in the linguistics of Noam Chomsky, known as Transformational Theory. His course in transformational grammar. Linguistics 112, has the largest enrollment of any course in the department...
Mirko Basaldella (he prefers to use only the first name) wants to "give students the grammar to express themselves." The design programs he directs at the Carpenter Center differ radically from traditional figure study and painting practice...
Mirko is a most wordlessly cloquent grammar teacher. He visits all the classes in the VAC occasionally. When he dropped in on one VES 20 section he moved a one inch black square into a big white area on a figure-ground exercise. Instantly the design improved 100 per cent -- you knew what "activating space" meant and what a square could do, although it would take ten pages to explain it in writing...
...once you decide that the Mirko (or Alcalay, or Reimann, or Neuman, etc.) language is the one you want to learn, the "grammar" seems correct. Teachers' corrections are improvements-- your eyes tell you that even while your ego rebels...
...expressing Eliot's preoccupation with authority: one of the main theological theorems of The Waste Land is that God, who utters words like datta (give) and shantih (the peace that passes all understanding), speaks neither sense nor English but, like men, in many voices and even in bad grammar...