Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elementary Yiddish A will include grammar, composition, conversation and an emphasis on reading fluency. Eckehard Simon, associate professor of Germanie Languages and Literature, explained that if student support is good next year, the German Department would in the future offer courses in Yiddish literature and intermediate level Yiddish...
...pensive man in private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because
...Black English" is not an illiterate language, as many think, but remarkably rich in nuances. According to Toni Morrison, an editor at Random House, "many of these poets are turning to the grammar, the punctuation, the language through which subculture blacks in particular have resisted total Westernization. Black dialect-if you want to call it that-is probably more subtle and sophisticated than standard white English." In standard English, she says, "there are only two present tenses-I work, I am working. In English as spoken in white Appalachia, there are three -I work, I am working...
...into the waiting trains. Eventually, he is rescued by a mysterious and flamboyant black Doctor (James Earl Jones) who takes him into a Remobilization Farm, where seated in the midst of the light show gadgetry of the Advice Room. Horner is advised to become a college instructor of prescriptive grammar. The rest of the film then, more or less, deals with Horner's adulterous relations with the wife of a fellow teacher, her impregnation, and her accidental death during an incredibly realistic and stomach-turning abortion scene...
...students of its 23 schools and a law signed last week by Governor Maddox outlawing any transportation to achieve racial integration. Federal Judge W.A. Bootle quickly issued an injunction against any delay?and the county smoothly initiated its integration plan. Not a single parent arrived to protest when Perry Grammar School, for example, increased its black enrollment from 5% to 40% and added six black teachers. "I like to think of what we're doing today as in a gallant Southern tradition?doing what's best for our children," said one white mother...