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...evidence of the excerpts, the Unabomber is a rather bland but careful writer, fastidious about his grammar; "to be able personally to influence" is his somewhat labored way of avoiding a split infinitive. In another passage, lambasting white liberals who champion black culture, he writes, "But in what does this preservation of African-American culture consist? It can hardly consist in anything more than eating black-style food...
Among undergraduates, Wylie was known in part for incorporating body language into his lessons, moving beyond the grammar and syntax of spoken French to include gestures and facial expressions. He sometimes began classes with films and limbering exercises; one of his popular courses at Harvard--nicknamed "Frogs and Flicks"--conveyed French civilization through film...
This story is from a popular grammar school book of the same name. In the book, the friendship between Omri and Little Bear is heartwarming and the messages about lessons people can learn from one another are invaluable...
...your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...
...well, luring high-wage, high-quality jobs to this country from across the planet. It gives us more bang for the diminishing number of bucks at our government's disposal and also (to the extent that the credits or tax cuts are focused on stimulating more and better grammar and high school education) deals with the growing problems of economic inequality and inequality of opportunity in this country...