Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff Carter's Secret Service men wear blue jeans to "blend better into campus life," then what will Amy's Secret Service men wear to her grammar school? Baseball caps and Keds...
...African languages are childish and crude reflecting upon a society with uncritical, unspeculative, and unanalytical mind; that some of them are "unintelligible in the dark" on account of the fact that they are communicated through signs and gestures having little resemblance to languages; that they do not have proper grammar and syntax; that it is worthless to study them since they are fast disappearing being replaced by English and French; that there exists "no civilized nation of any other complexion than white," and the like...
What else makes Rupert run? Some associates believe he is driven by a need to better the accomplishments of his famous father. Others say Murdoch's ambition is to overcome his resentment at being forever considered an outsider?at Geelong Grammar, at Oxford, in Sydney, on Fleet Street. Up to a point, Murdoch agrees: "New York welcomes newcomers. In England, if one is an outsider there is suspicion." Still other Murdoch-watchers explain that the inveterate gambler is merely playing two-up with bigger stakes these days. Too bloody right, admits Murdoch: "Publishing is a life of constant calculated risks...
...Keeler affair. (Murdoch some months later bought a major interest in London Weekend Television, a production company partly owned by Frost, and fired dozens.) Murdoch mostly ignored his incessant vilification in the British press and kept pointing to his papers' increasing circulation. But the attacks evidently reinforced his grammar school anxiety over being considered an outsider. "I guess I have grown a bit introverted," Murdoch concedes. "You get bruised in life...
...confined from 1963 to 1965, Bukovsky had to endure countless hours of propaganda "reindoctrination," while the police doctors argued about whether his dissident views qualified him as a schizophrenic or a psychopath. In the asylum he found some textbooks for the study of English. "You know," he confided, "English grammar is funny-a bit mad to us Russians-so why not study it in a prison madhouse...