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...75th birthday celebration, Poet-Author Carl Sandburg (see BOOKS) told a New York Times writer why it was that, in 1899, he flunked out as a West Point cadet: "It was arithmetic and grammar. Those verbs again. They are terrible things. Nouns are definite, the names of persons or things, but verbs cause all the trouble in the world. All lawsuits are about something coming between two nouns-those verbs...
...Berkeley's Emerson Grammar School, he was already reading Russian authors, and during study periods, he would spring from his seat to pace about the rear of the classroom, a book in his hand. He never cared what his classmates thought of him, or how he looked, or whether his shoelaces were tied. Nor does he care today: his tie is frequently askew, his suits (he has four) slightly wrinkled. He lapped up mythology ("Vulcan," he wrote at eleven, "was the god of goldsmiths, ironsmiths, leadsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, brassmiths and Mrs. Smiths-there...
...three-year college course was a strictly confined, minutely planned curriculum. In his first year the student of 1642 took Logic and Physics on Monday and Tuesday, Greek Grammar on Wednesday, Hebrew Grammar on Thursday, Rhetoric on Friday and Divinity Catechetical, History and Nature of Plants on Saturday. In his second year he studied Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Ethics and Politics, Greek Grammar and Aramaic and in his third year, Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Syriac, Arithmetic and Geometry, Astronomy and Greek composition. No deviation was allowed from this course of study...
...same approach in his piece on Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence. The meter he choses (unconsciously or not) contributes powerfully to his thoughts on imponderable nature, giving balance and clearness to the total meaning. Tending towards obscurity, Robert Layzer presents a tribute to She Voyages which becomes entangled in odd grammar and unconnected images. Regrettably, he is unable to control some highly imaginative metaphors. What Winifred Hare means to imply in her caption, Song for Two People on Three Instruments, I will not venture to guess. Regardless of what she refers to, her piece creates a pleasant, colorful mood in fresh...
...from the Sudetenland was really a former Nazi official named Fritz Roesler. Richter-Roesler then lost his legislative immunity and went to jail for forgery of identity papers. The time it took Bonn to catch Roesler is amazing since in 1949 he was fired from his position as a grammar school teacher when all his students began writing essays explaining that Germany lost the war only because traitors gave away secret weapons that soon would have meant an overwhelming victory for Hitler...