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Interview subjects repeatedly tried to fix the grammar in their quotes. There were at least a dozen offers to edit The Crimson's prose before it went into print (all, as Crimson policy requires, were politely refused...
...while reaction among teachers to the series was almost uniformly positive, there were several angry phone calls about the first story's grammar...
...cause of Danny's distress is one Sister Meredith Louise, nee Meredith O'Connor (Marit Haahr), a former classmate from St. Patrick's Grammar School and the woman of his dreams. The seeming coincidence of their encounter is belied by Meredith's suspicious behavior, her intrusive questions (prepared beforehand on index cards) and her subsequent attempt to seduce Danny--actions ill-befitting a nun. Haahr is best when she play light-heartedly with her role, delightfully mixing sarcasm and naivete, seductiveness and innocence. Her dizzy ramblings and confused fumbling with her ever-present index cards are endearing...
...something as shady and nebulous as plagiarism. Thanks to their computational speed and power, computers can riffle through reams of data and pinpoint patterns of repetition the naked eye might never notice. But what do these patterns signify? Intentional theft? Random clusters of words attracted to each other by grammar or syntax? Something in between? Interestingly enough, some historians who received the Stewart-Feder report decided it exonerated Oates of any suspicion of plagiarism, since the examples showed how much the majority of his writing differed from his presumed sources...
Among Rubin's published works are numerous translations, a book about early censorship of literature in Japan and a humorous tract about the quirks of teaching Japanese grammar...