Word: jeane
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...Blessing of the Tools is a Labor Day tradition at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Fairfax Station, Va., and this year the man who had come to do the honor was the Pope's ambassador to U.S. Catholicism. For Archbishop Jean Jadot, who logs more air miles than President Ford, it was a typical visit to small-town America. Jadot has given a speech in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House (saying a few good words for country music), climbed aboard a corn combine during a rural-life conference in Iowa, and said Mass...
...Television has become so enamored of the game's sales potential that a blur of live and taped tennis saturates the stay-at-home spectator. One weekend afternoon bewildered fans watched Billie Jean King, for instance, play against two different opponents in two different tournaments on two different channels...
...writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against what she sees as the encroaching barbarism of inexact and fraudulent language...
...have been made of the "linguistic separatism" that supposedly divides blacks and whites. As with some other black-white questions, it can be as much a matter of economic class as of race. Rural poor whites have trouble with standard English just as some poor blacks do. Says Jean Stafford: "I feel about black English as I do about Yiddish. Theirs is a lingua franca that they are free to use among one another, but if they are not making themselves understood to those outside their group, then they can expect nothing but misinterpretation. There has to be an official...
This bilious tirade would not be worth a moment's thought if it had come off a mimeograph machine in some dank cellar. Instead, The Camp of the Saints arrives trailing clouds of praise from French savants, including Dramatist Jean Anouilh ("A haunting book of ir resistible force and calm logic"), with the imprint of a respected U.S. publisher and a teasing pre-publication ad campaign ("The end of the white world is near"). Before the book is called "courageous" or "provocative," a small distinction should be made. The portrait of racial enmity is one matter. The exacerbation...