Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical effort to break the boredom of repetitive drill in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and composition has been successfully carried out in a two-year experiment at Purdue University. Called "Project English" and financed by Purdue and the U.S. Office of Education, it ignored the traditional separate classes in these topics for some 4,800 seventh-graders in 14 Midwest cities. Instead, the students were immersed in some relatively difficult but intriguing works of literature, on the theory that reading good writers who have interesting things to say is a more natural way to acquire good English than by attacking...
...papers about them, acted out some of the roles, prepared newspapers based on the stories. At the end of the project, compared with kids in regular classes, they showed superior ability in reading comprehension, understanding words, effective written expression. They did just as well as the regular students in grammar and spelling...
Only faith, for instance, will carry most readers past Lévi-Strauss's tenet that the mind may be the prisoner of a secret code, locked in the unconscious, that often has as little to do with conscious reality as the rules of grammar have to do with the function of speech. If order exists anywhere-in the behavior of the atom, the dance of heated particles, the orbit of the stars-then, say the structuralists, order must exist everywhere, even in the brain. Just as the law of gravity determined the fall of Newton's apple...
...dominated by chinoiserie, and his house on N Street in Georgetown is a treasure house of the Oriental art he started collecting more than 30 years ago. Bored with the long train ride from Chestnut Hill to his office in Philadelphia, Scott, then a lawyer, started teaching himself Japanese grammar. As often happens with students of that subtle tongue, Scott found that a taste for Japanese art quickly followed. "Mrs. Scott was slightly appalled at first at all the junk I was bringing home," he recalls, "but she came to like...
...just what they do in this engaging novel set in the offices of a large London daily. No one on the staff has more than a passing concern for the interests of the paper. One staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they...