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Should he dislike a teacher-and he frequently does-he may put a thumbtack on her chair. "However, when he is resisting some task such as learning the complications of English grammar and strenuously feels that he 'won't need to know these in life,' he is only further upset by a teacher who agrees with him. At that very moment he is almost begging for authority, an authority that says . . . that there are certain things you have to do in life whether you like it or not." Thirteen is a man of conscience, and though there...
...held seminars on drinking for seven years. "The seminars have become so popular," he said, "that we have inaugurated classes on this subject in other departments to take care of the overflow." In answer to a question, Ullman said that he saw no need for courses on alcoholism in grammar schools...
...seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange...
...guard painting leads him to argue that it is, in the best sense, conservative. Recognizable objects, he says, are only the surface of painting, mere vocabulary. Abstract composition is the basis of all painting-the syntax. Therefore, the young American pioneers are blazing a trail back to fundamentals. Since grammar is not poetry, that would seem to leave Taylor's basic question of communication up in the air. But Sweeney maintains that the prime function of art is simply "the communication of a sense of ordered parts within an all-embracing unity...
...admiralty specification teak. Author MacLean, a schoolteacher who served five years in the Royal Navy, has brought to his first novel an ear as sharp as sonar. The Liverpool stokers blaspheme authentically, and about the story lies the fascination of precise technical information and service jargon-the grim grammar of war. After 20 months of the terrible Murmansk run, Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia. It recalls a cost of Lend-Lease...