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...Lithuanians boast a finer nationalist pedigree than Vytautas Landsbergis. Descended from a long line of intellectuals, the new President is only the latest Landsbergis to agitate for an independent homeland. His maternal grandfather produced the first grammar of modern Lithuanian, while his paternal grandfather was exiled to Russia for his opposition to czarist rule. Landsbergis' father Vytautas, one of Lithuania's leading architects, was a volunteer in the fight for independence in 1918 and, with his elder son Gabrielius, took part in an attempt to create an independent Lithuania during World...
...text is sprinkled with periodic errors in grammar, which do little to increase the book's credibility. To pick an example more or less at random, Andrew Kopkind's essay on "Living with the Bomb: The World According to Bok" reads: "When Harvard University encounters nuclear weaponry, they do so as equals," Even if Harvard were a "they," the two halves of the sentence wouldn't agree. Sloppy proofing cannot help but suggest sloppy thinking...
...growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such...
Chinese classes are incredible; we take two hours of grammar, two hours of writing and two hours of conversation every day. But here, all that work doesn't feel academic at all, because we use it every day. It's like taking an ongoing course on survival while you are out camping in the woods...
...exams test the books' content. "They can actually ask you how exactly Marx learned English," he says. (By writing for American newspapers, it turns out.) "So we have to go through them. But we also try to come up with exercises that get to the real questions of English grammar. Now, which word do you think belongs in the blank...