Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge, Holbrook, 41, is a teacher who comes straight to the point that "the roots of true literacy are in the child's natural urge to use language to make sense of its life." Scoffing at the "didactic decorum" that dominates English teaching, Holbrook ignores graded vocabularies and grammar drills. "Without 'vocabulary lessons' the child yet extends his vocabulary because he is searching for new concepts. Without lessons in grammar and sentence structure he yet comes to write 'by nature' sentences of such complexity that grammarians would take years to catch up on definitions...
...paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...
...Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder. The rest of the film runs to self-parody, augmented by boyish enthusiasm for booze, broads, violence and bad grammar. Though 7 Hoods offers negligible entertainment value, it does provide innocuous occupational therapy for the western world's best-paid gang of rebels without a cause...
...apparently independent of the man who created it. All of the conscious or subconscious control that Beethoven was capable of seems to have gone into the music-leaving none for the day-by-day business of living. The human Beethoven could not add, could not learn the rules of grammar, and could not master his emotions. For a time, his biographers were able to ignore these facts. But in 1866 the first volume of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's great Life appeared, and Beethoven biography has not been the same since...
Uris piles up countless petty errors of fact, even of grammar ("It's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing" is another Uris pronouncement). The airlift and the gutty Berliners deserve a better chronicler...