Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stressing techniques of advanced learning, the second concentrating on one or more disciplines, the third consisting of an independent study project. The only requirements are one term in "human development," ranging from sexual roles to the I Clung, plus another in "language and communication," a rubric for topics from grammar to the possibilities of "extraterrestrial intelligence...
...American writer, poor chap, gets blamed for all sorts of mischief from corrupting grammar to corrupting minors. But the decline and fall of the republic has seldom been laid at his study door. Nobody has flattered a man of letters by calling him a major danger to the state since the time during World War II when Archibald MacLeish, Van Wyck Brooks and others accused T.S. Eliot & Co. of demoralizing the fighters for democracy by having scribbled so depressingly about the "Waste Land" 20 years before...
...school integration, allied with liberal whites behind School Superintendent Gregory Coffin's implementation of a plan to distribute blacks equally among the city's 16 elementary schools (TIME, March 9, 1970). Coffin became anathema to conservatives and was forced out after integration was completed. Evanston's grammar schools survived, however, as a model of quality and racial integration...
What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...
Herself a poet and critic (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Miss Borroff spent last spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...