Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Claremont's 38 students present a wide range of problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...
...school's classes are conducted in French, and there are basic French courses for children who still have trouble with the language. In an ordinary week a twelve-year-old American boy works for 25 hours on general subjects, e.g., arithmetic, French grammar, geography, history, spelling, elementary science. For another six hours a week, the wife of an American major teaches him English grammar, spelling, American geography and history. Other national groups study the geography, history and grammar of their own countries...
Wayne University's Professor (of English) Donald J. Lloyd has long believed that Americans are too busy thinking about their grammar to learn how to write. They are possessed of a demon, "a mania for correctness," writes Professor Lloyd in the current issue of the American Scholar. "Our spelling must be 'correct'-even if the words are ill-chosen; our 'usage' must be 'correct'-even though any possible substitute expression, however crude, would be perfectly clear; our punctuation must be 'correct'-even though practices surge and change with the passing...
...drama from its subject, the picture poses a rather odd and artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...scaring them out of their wits. But as the center keeps on growing, some parents may begin to wonder what happened to all the old favorites. Among the old favorites condemned last week: Kipling's Wee Willie Winkle ("containing elements of white superiority"), and Five Little Peppers ("The grammar is atrocious...