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...Hustings. West of the Alleghenies, Joe McCarthy is still bamboozling audiences. On the speaker's platform he has a sweat-stained, shirtsleeved earnestness. He stumbles, mixes his grammar, bangs the lectern hard with his fist. He dives into a huge briefcase for "documentation." He flourishes affidavits, reads from congressional hearings, waves photostats. "Listen to this, if you will-unbelievable!", he cries...
...evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited his hook...
...Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
With his civic pride outrunning his grammar, Texas City's Mayor Lee Robinson said last week: "People would tell me that Texas City was done for and I'd always say: Just because you get hit hard in the stomach don't mean you're going to lay down...
Portuguese Eisenhower. Its methods are far removed from ordinary U.S. language teaching. "The one word I object to around here," says Colonel Charles Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist...