Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is an analogy with language," noted Sekler. "Obviously the person who is going to write poetry in the end must first learn grammar, syntax, and orthography." The logic was that if a person was going to create a work of art, he must first learn such principles as color theory. Instead of waiting for a burst of inspiration, the point was to select a problem, work on it methodically, and in the end the creative moment would arrive...
...them wrote stories that were full of inaccuracies and made-up sources. They were fun, but they didn't want to do the nitty-gritty work it takes to be a good reporter." Adds Guthrie: "They had no loyalty. They wanted to be instant Lippmanns. Even their grammar was atrocious." A Scotsman, Guthrie scans two London papers every day "just so I can read some decent English...
Youngsters who have left-and some who remain-view the dispute as a matter of principle rather than grammar. In 1971 Reporter Joe Eszterhas was fired after writing an embarrassing satire for Evergreen Review on the Plain Dealer's handling of its scoop on the My Lai massacre photos. That caused ill will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over...
...Human Rights Commission. As a boy, Gough liked to sit at dinner with the family encyclopedia at his back, handy for reference in arguments. Gough left one school after a teacher complained of his impudence, a charge that was to be echoed throughout his life. In Canberra Grammar, he was classed as industrious but not brilliant, good in English and Latin, terrible in math and, again, impudent. At Sydney University, where he studied arts and law, he was known as a prankster. In his first role as Prime Minister, he played Neville Chamberlain in a 1940 student skit. Stepping...
Similarly, we can cut spending for mental-health clinics, grammar school milk programs and family assistance on the ground that America already has enough sane people, children without rickets, and families who are not slavishly impoverished. Of course, weapons research must be further funded, because you just cannot have enough ways to kill people...