Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...this broad land-geographically that is-Latin is in cupa favillarum,' complained Franklin P. Adams. The situation is so serious, he added, that he had better explain what he meant: translated literally, Latin was "in the can of ashes...
...current This Week, F.P.A., the mournful wit of Information Please, anc an old Horatian of parts, made a plea for "the so-called dead language." Wrote he: "To say that one is going to 'use' Latin in one's daily life is nonsense. . . . But it seems to me there is too little education for its own sake. I do believe that if a boy wants to become a banker, he should emphasize such subjects as economics. . . . I also believe , . . that the so-called 'useless' things-Latin, for example-will help...
...know many a graduate who says that English grammar, as well as the ability to write a letter in coherent, expressive English, was a mystery to him until he learned it from Latin. ... I refuse to reveal my sources, but teachers of English in colleges and universities have told me that most of the boys who enter without Latin can't write an English sentence. They don't know the meaning of words. . . . They don't understand syntax...
...opposers of higher education, to say nothing of Latin, say that Shakespeare wasn't a college man. Of course, but it wasn't not going to a university that made him Shakespeare...