Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of Gavino Ledda and his singular determination to acquire ever-deepening levels of knowledge and understanding, despite some very formidable obstacles. The opening scene loses no time in explaining why the cards will be stacked against Gavino for the better part of his life. Storming into Gavino's grammar school classroom, shepherd's staff in hand, Efisio demands custody of his son. He tells Gavino's awestruck teacher that the boy is more urgently needed in the fields with the family flock than behind a desk with a book, summing up his view of education by declaring, "There...
...alternative institutions for these students, since "few Catholic seminaries will train lay people for anything." Harvard especially appeals to students because of its reputation for academic excellence and generous financial aid policy. The non-denominational status also attracts people. Most Catholic students at the Div School have attended Catholic grammar schools, high schools and colleges, Swain says, and "want a break from a kind of ghetto educational experience...
...used to compose music, draw Op artistic pictures and write poems. They will never be Marvells or undo Donne?but they are trying. Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider." Marie Boroff, an English professor at Yale, acted as muse to a computer...
Finch, a North Mississippi small town lawyer with rough-hewn friends, a crunching handshake and grammar that makes high school English teachers Cringe in disbelief, has conjured up the specter of southern populism--a specter that has emerged from the hinterlands of Mississippi now that the race issue ceases to becloud class divisions in the state with the lowest per capita income in the nation...
...fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style was odd and that it limited...