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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More detailed study of space-age jargon would be beneficial, McNeill feels, and his report must be considered only preliminary. "But we can conclude," he says, "that the following statement is probably true: Space-speak is an engineering technology concept expression manuscript sentence grammar device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linguistics: Speaking of Space | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...Yorker review by Louise Bogan is perhaps the most dangerous, since it comes from someone who should know better. "Berryman is out to get language itself, to distort and maim it, not in the direction of wit but in the direction of funny grammar and burnt-cork comedy." She accuses him of "pulling human speech toward some totally disjunct and invertebrate set of noises." Such a reaction betrays a tin ear and a wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman - 1 | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

Harvard's Department emphasizes real specific languages, as opposed to M.I.T.'s computerized pioneering work in building mathematical models for grammar. But students in both schools can cross-register and benefit from each other's strengths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HUMANITIES | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

...million crash allocation for Los Angeles County, half of it earmarked for Watts. A discount store blackened from Au gust's arson has been made over-and appropriately renamed "Watts Happening"-as a Government-financed coffeehouse for idle youth. A new $800,000 training center offers classes in grammar and Negro history for 200 students. But the overall program has been snarled by political rivalry and bureaucratic delays, and visible accomplishments so far are few. A new Head Start project for preschool youngsters got under way only last month; a Job Skills Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Reprise of a Nightmare | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

FRENCH SPEAKING AFRICA (Ivery Coast, Gabon, Guinea and Togo) Volunteers will teach English as a foreign language, including grammar, composition, literature and conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Directory: '66 Overseas Training Program | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

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