Word: grammars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...title role is taken by Patrick Fitzpatrick, no ordinary ranch hand. Sure, he breaks broncs and gets violently drunk. But he also reads Thucydides, has a philologist's loathing for the bad grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and simplicity of Western life but rarely enjoys it. Patrick is too busy feeling superior to cowboys, real and rhinestone. Haunted by what he calls "sadness-for-no-reason," this Hamlet in mule-ear boots admires only one thing: horses. Clopping into the sunset on a favorite mare, he exults privately...
Rodriguez, in fact, is his own best case history. "I have been haunted by how my education has made me different," he says. As a "socially disadvantaged" son of Spanish-speaking parents, he entered a Roman Catholic grammar school in Sacramento, Calif., when he was six, speaking barely 50 words of English. By day, in class, he sat silent and unlearning. At night he luxuriated in the warmth and intimacy of his family's Spanish language and the separate, private world of his home. It was only when his teachers finally prevailed on Rodriguez's parents...
...while they march him out of the jungle. "When He made the Word, God made possible also its contrary," says Emmanuel Lieber, who is apparently modeled on Wiesenthal. "He created on the night side of language a speech for hell ... There shall come a man who ... will know the grammar of hell and teach it to others. He will know the sounds of madness and loathing and make them seem music...
...essential Japanese ideograms; by sixth grade they should know 1,000 more. During high school, the Japanese must cover far more math and science than their American counterparts. By the time they take their college entrance exams, students are prepared to handle questions in English grammar, as well as Japanese, and in subject matter not generally approached until college in the U.S., such as calculus, probability and statistics...
...serve my country. Where outsiders saw a snarl, I saw the fear of rejection. What often appeared as deviousness was a means to preserve his options in the face of inner doubt about his own judgment. Few men so needed to be loved and were so shy about the grammar of love. Complexity was his defense, a sense of inadequacy his secret shame, until they became second nature and produced what he feared most...