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...Noah Webster had not been born," says Pyles, "we should have had to invent him," for he became the very symbol of the new schoolmarm tradition. "He thought of himself, with uncharacteristic modesty, as the Prompter, 'the man who . . . sits behind the scenes, looks over the rehearser, and with a moderate voice corrects him when wrong . . .' More than any other single person, he shaped the course of American English, for he supplied us with the schoolmaster's authority which we needed for linguistic self-confidence...
...Carl conceded, "is the best we can do in the circumstances, and if we did not have it we would have to invent something very like it." Nonetheless, he added in disillusion, "we established at San Francisco an organization which could no doubt protect the world against a marauding mouse but not against any real danger from a tiger...
...seems the Russians didn't invent the submarine after all. According to United Artists in its latest release Mutiny, a handmade submarine of waxed hickory construction was used in the war of 1812 to sink a 70-gun ship-of-the-line. This film should please NROTC students and those who like their action stacatto...
...Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB PRINCE'S STRANGE HOBBY...
...easy to transform a good play into a good movie. Perhaps someone will someday invent a "play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...