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...advent of mass communications technology changed speechmaking in another way. Before mechanical reproduction, few reporters could truly record a speech verbatim; thus, the hesitations and minor lapses of grammar that characterize everyday speech were never seen by the newspaper audience...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Author! Author! Wherefore Art Thou, Author? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Steiner was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. and grew up in New York City where he attended Columbia Grammar School. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he played freshman basketball and, later, house intramurals...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

DAVIS RULES (ABC, Jan. 27, approximately 10 p.m. EST). The year's most coveted time period -- the one following the Super Bowl -- goes to this new sitcom starring Jonathan Winters as the wacky father of a grammar school principal (Randy Quaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 28, 1991 | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...When you say something like changing the way you spell women for a political reason, people get threatened for reasons that have nothing to do with grammar," says Asay. "It's a much deeper problem than that...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

...grammar school dropout, Weinberg built his fortune by buying Baltimore real estate at bargain prices and later investing in transit companies and Hawaiian properties. Weinberg's largesse was not entirely a surprise. During a 1984 visit to Israel, he donated $1 million to buy air conditioners for the country's nursing homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: In the End, a Friend Indeed | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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