Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the students are fluent in the sentences, Lipson begins to explain the rules of grammar. "Once they have a feel of the language, they can more easily memorize the rules," he explained. "It's almost like learning the grammar of your own language...
...prude, although she is a virgin. But she is also stupefyingly sexy. Assaults of varying skill have been made upon her virtue almost daily since she turned 14, and unlike some girls whom men are always bothering, this bothers her, particularly after she leaves home to teach grammar school and falls in love with a Latin master named Patrick Standish. They meet, neck heavily, wrench apart, argue earnestly, and smoke more cigarettes than are good for them. This goes on for months, and toward the end of the novel the reader has begun to wish that Jenny and Patrick would...
Collections of sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right...
...Amherst Alumni News, President Calvin H. Plimpton quoted Amherst's application requirements for 1860: "Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years. Last week gravel-voiced, grammar-fracturing Durante, usually as vague as yesterday's fog, proclaimed that him and Margie will definitely be hitched this week...