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Word: grammars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This absence speaks very loudly for the obvious rejection of African languages as legitimate education," Isaacs said. "I have even been asked if African languages have grammar and syntax," he added...

Author: By Betsy Gershun, | Title: Speakers Discuss Similarities of U.S., S. African Racism | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...latter article states that "What we really need is for women to have a choice. She doesn't necessarily have to go out into the marketplace in order to be recognized as a person of worth in her own right," not only does she have problems with grammar but she somehow forgets that, believe it or not, most women in this country who "get out into the market place" don't have much choice: they do it because their children are hungry and need clothes or because womeone in the family should have had an operation months...

Author: By Pooh Shapiro, | Title: PULP | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...sciences translate nature into language. In this process, they employ the rules not only of grammar but of what conceptualizations are permissible about the world...

Author: By Ruth Hubbard, | Title: With Will to Choose | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

...outskirts of town lighted crosses sat overlooking the city as white knights danced beneath them. On my 15th birthday a series of bombs erupted inside our school, and for two years I was among 1,000 high school students who rode 13 miles a day to a lent-out grammar school, where the commodes were the right height for second-graders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...students to examine classical subjective literature, calculating the number of times each part of speech was used, making students aware of undesirable loose jargon and grandiose tendencies in much specialized work. Style analysis, former head section man for the option, Martin Robbins, said, forced the students to review their grammar and brought them closer to absorbing the gestures of each writer's style...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Scuttling Journalism at Harvard | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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