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Developed by Sir James Pitman, a Conservative M.P. and grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac, the Initial Teaching Alphabet is no Shavian attempt to supersede the regular alphabet. Strictly a teaching tool, it aims to overcome the disparity between the sounds that English-speaking tots know in their heads and the symbols they see on the page. In essence, the child confronts a decoding problem. Unhappily, the code is crazy. The 40-odd phonemes (distinct sound units) of English are spelled in 2,000 different ways, and the letters vary bafflingly in their capital, lower case, printed and handwritten...
...PAUL ISAAC Eastchester...
...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The final volume of an excellent biographical trilogy on Trotsky, in which Stalin is shown using the immense apparatus of international Communism to stalk his old rival from country to country, to murder his sons, and finally to strike down the tough old man himself...
...pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny, it had to decide on liability, and on that question the musicians were no help at all. The jury found no negligence, never even considered an award...
...PROPHET OUTCAST, by Isaac Deutscher. The last and most dramatic volume in this definitive biography of Leon Trotsky, the odd man out of the Communist revolution who died as he lived, fiercely but in vain...