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...German instead of the two-which are now given. Since 1958 students with no previous instruction could choose between German A (taught by the audio-lingual method, and emphasizing speaking and understanding), and German B (designed for students who will take further courses and which concentrates on principles of grammar...
...criticized the current two-course approach which, he said, produces German A students who do not know a "blasted rule," and German B students who are unable to apply the grammar they have learned...
...suggesting that Forman is a conscious innovator in form, or that he will necessarily continue his gleeful negligence of film grammar. No doubt his rough spots could be sanded away by a valedictorian from any of the academics. It doesn't much matter. Through his own flaws or through some lesser soul's corrections, Forman's large soul will continue issuing an uncommonly perceptive love for humankind...
Root of Rage. The new Manheim translation makes more accessible to U.S. readers the astonishing virtuosity of Céline's style, which broke out of the formal gavotte of French grammar and syntax-and used all the resources of thieves' argot, slum slang, and the shoptalk of pimps, prostitutes, bums, and pickpockets-to demonstrate the power and quality of his love of life and hatred for those who must live it. Coprological images-excrement, pus, gangrene, all the humiliating ironies of bodily decay-crowded this doctor's mind. Still, his language no longer shocks; today...
...dreary industrial Midlands, the town of Kettering was long distinguished solely for its output of inexpensive shoes, produced by the millions at local factories. Now the town has won new honors. Using makeshift equipment, a physics teacher and a group of bright high school boys at Kettering Grammar School have discovered the location of a new and previously unannounced rocket-launching site in Russia...