Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think of the uneasiness of Jewish laymen, who, alas, find themselves confronted by a whole horde of "reverends" who have assumed that title for themselves, regardless of its doubtful grammar. They have taken on this appellation to cover their positions as chicken killers, kosher slaughterers, synagogue beadles, ritual arrangers, providers of a minyan (made famous by Paddy Chayefsky's Tenth Man), circumcisers, cantors, choir singers, undertakers, burial arrangers, and frequently even grave diggers, not to speak of the ubiquitous shammash (originally "servant"), who is the real factotum in every well-run synagogue or temple. I wonder if they like...
Dividing children into three basic groups, the system sends the mechanically minded 5% to good technical schools. The top 20% go to scholarly grammar schools, where in five years they can take an exam for the "ordinary" General Certificate of Education. Some go on for two more years as "sixth-formers." aiming for the advanced certificate that Britons must earn before entering universities...
What anguishes middle-class Britain is the fate of eleven-plus "failures"-the 75% of eleven-year-olds who are sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act. Stripped of grammar-level minds, such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios...
...Twinkle Toes. A onetime single-wing tailback at Louisiana State, Tittle started his pro career in 1948 when many of his teammates were still in grammar school. He spent two years with Baltimore in the old All-America Conference (1949 record: 1 win, 11 losses), put in ten years with the San Francisco 49ers. Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against...
...Cummings: "His misuse of parts of speech ... his systematic relation of words that grammar and syntax don't permit us to relate - all this makes him a magical bootlegger and moonshiner of language...