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Collections of sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right...
...Amherst Alumni News, President Calvin H. Plimpton quoted Amherst's application requirements for 1860: "Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years. Last week gravel-voiced, grammar-fracturing Durante, usually as vague as yesterday's fog, proclaimed that him and Margie will definitely be hitched this week...
...Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin's Bottled Bellyache...
Output: 20,000. The son of a barber in London's Maiden Lane, Turner never got enough education to make him sure of his grammar or his diction, but he was turning out competent drawings at the age of twelve which his proud father peddled to customers for one to three shillings. Two years later, in 1789, young Turner was admitted as a student to the Royal Academy at a council meeting presided over by the redoubtable Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was a small fuss-budget of a boy with unruly long curls and a large nose. He seldom...