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...fine could be instituted for using faulty grammar and orthography. A law could be written along the lines of pornography legislation. Corrupting people's ability to communicate certainly is at least as harmful as corrupting their morals...
...contemporary toxicologists were to conjure up a cause-and-effect grammar for lethal chemicals, asbestos would stand for lung cancer, benzene for leukemia, Kepone for sterility, vinyl chloride for cancer of the liver. The links between these chemicals and certain ailments are now clearly limned, in medical circles as well as in popular mythology. But the connections with diseases for other substances are merely suspicions and likely to remain so for a long time...
During a morning workshop on teaching writing to freshman, Richard C. Marius, director of the expository writing program, told prospective Expos teachers that the average Harvard student doesn't write very well; but he stressed that the problem is not rhetoric but grammar...
Simon & Schuster, went over the manuscript before it was sent to Betty Prashker, a top editor at Doubleday, which publishes Talese. Prashker says that Talese was not thin-skinned about taking editorial advice, but adds enigmatically: "Grammar is not etched in marble." Perhaps not; neither should it be polymorphously perverse...
...shoe factory. His family, as he often remarked later, was "shabby genteel, not working class but no money to spare." The boy gave signs early on that lower-middle-class neighborhoods would not hold him long. He showed an aptitude for science, a field he took up because his grammar school offered no arts courses. He won a scholarship to Leicester University College, took first-class honors in chemistry and was asked to stay on for research. After earning a master's degree in physics, he ascended from his red brick university to the intellectual heights of Cambridge...