Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar in comparative literature, served as chairman and only man of the Department of Celtic, and taught a number of courses in Celtic languages and literatures. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1950, and taught at New York University. on early Irish grammar and an edition of an Irish text will keep him busy in Cambridge following his retirement...
...Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around on shanks' mare. They don't like high muckety mucks. The little folks in grammar school are called scholars...
...several speeches to academic audiences (the book is a sheaf of speeches and book introductions-the sort of collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks"), but his lamentations over the mass culture...
Durrell is sloppy about his grammar and careless about facts. Thus a spiritualist of the 30s is shown receiving otherworldly messages "from Edward Gibbon and Ramon Novarro to such of their descendants as might still be living." Novarro, a spry 62-year-old living in North Hollywood, is to this day perfectly able to communicate with anyone by word of mouth rather than mediums. But at the center of Durrell's Labyrinth, there lurks enough true humanity to make up for a little bit of bull...
...believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion, and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman." Having thus enjoined the S.R.O. audience at his first of three fall lectures as Oxford's new Professor of Poetry, British Litterateur Robert Graves, 66, last week wound up the series with a final cautionary note to young ladies who dream of becoming an artist's inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager...