Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rage--perhaps at Miss Bingham, possibly at yourself, probably at the characters. But something will have happened, and that, for me, distinguishes her work from the rest of the issue. Perhaps I like it because she writes about Cambridge and uses the old familiar techniques with punctuation and grammar and "realistic" people, which require less reader effort than other approaches. Perhaps it is only that she writes directly about local sexual relations, which is diverting...
...began after this year's crop of ten-and eleven-year-olds took the controversial "eleven-plus examination" (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952) that will determine whether they will be allowed to prepare for a university at a grammar school or have to be satisfied with a commercial, technical or trade school. As the youngsters recited the questions they remembered, their parents began testing each other and their friends. Then the London Daily Mail published some of the questions as a challenge to their readers. How many adults, the paper wanted to know, could get through the ordeal their children...
...Fourth Symphony was in the key of B Flat Minor instead of B Flat*), and the show now has trouble persuading experts to risk their reputations against him. Nadler's opponents have generally surpassed him in schooling. He never went beyond the eighth grade at Mullanphy grammar school in St. Louis because he had to work to support his family. But he read hungrily, listened to radio music in his spare time, and found that "just about everything that interested me stuck." Without really trying, he says, he can rattle off the names and dates of any ruler...
...dinning a new language into the U.S. ear. It is something like English, but it has a grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of its own. It grows out of a rich compost of dialects heard at Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
World War II: Mobilized as medical aide, seriously wounded and taken prisoner (in German prison he completed writing a textbook on English Grammar and pronunciation), later was returned to Arras in prisoner exchange. Joined resistance, worked for four years in network called Libre-Nord under nom de guerre Laboule; three times arrested by Gestapo who failed to break him, last time released when condemned friend (executed next day) refused to identify him as-Laboule...