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Leading the Left requires a new talent. The people on the Left have usually worked out the complexities of the issues in their own minds; they need to be stirred to action. So Rudd's self-contradictions often are buried in his complex grammar as he jabs his listeners' moral emotions...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Mark Rudd | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

...Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Honorary Degrees | 9/26/1968 | See Source »

...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick attempts to create a new cinematic language to describe the future. His grammar is faultless, his pronunciation beautiful, his message obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...will be, me is a question of grammar and not of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: LUCID PESSIMISM: A CIORAN SAMPLER | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools: Academies for Dropouts | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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