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...from the Basement. In all-Negro Douglas High School, one of Marshall's uncles gave him an A in algebra, but in grammar school he was repeatedly punished for breaking rules. Day after day, the principal sentenced Marshall to the basement, and allowed him to leave only when he had learned a section of the U.S. Constitution. "Before I left that school" he says, "I knew the whole thing by heart." He does not contend that the seeds of his career sprouted in the basement, but such discipline did reinforce a respect for authority, which he retains in uneasy...
...full-dress study of the language of Communism has yet to be written, and would probably represent an intellectual feat more difficult than Bishop Colenso's codification of Zulu grammar or the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Meanwhile. Author Hodgkinson has made a commendable beginning...
After urging NBC to correct its faults, the committee, listed a dozen recommendations, including such pallid injunctions as correct grammar, how-to-do-it shows, hobby material, folk music and "adventure programs other than westerns and space serials-for example, exploration." NBC handed the report to its program producers, solicited their comment before checking what, if any, "constructive steps . . . can be taken...
Like all anti-Shakespeareans, Author Hoffman begins by arguing that William Shakespeare was too much of a booby to have written as well as he did. There was a flourishing grammar school at Stratford in Shakespeare's youth, but there is no record of Shakespeare's having attended it. Nor is there positive evidence that he went to Oxford or Cambridge (England's only two universities at that time). But could Shakespeare not have educated himself? Author Hoffman scoffs at the idea. "There were no public libraries ... no dictionaries ... no grammars...
...present, emphasis in the elementary language courses is almost entirely on grammar and reading, with little or no concern for speaking. Since eighty per cent or more of the students taking these courses take no more than necessary to pass their language requirement, the imbalance between grammar and reading on the one hand, and oral proficiency on the other, seems unwarranted. The student who has taken only enough language courses to satisfy the requirement or pass the examination exempting one from having to take more language courses is far less likely to read a book in German or French than...