Word: linguistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour seems to have been, practically from birth, a perfervid scholar, linguist, spiritual genius and altogether verbose little man who finds everything in life "heartrending," or "damnable." "My emotions are too damnably raw today, I fear," he starts, and in 28,000 words plunges forth to speculate on God, reincarnation, Proust, Balzac, baseball and the charms of the camp director's wife...
Hogben's book is full of clues to understanding alien but associated tongues. He urges the amateur linguist to forget the vowels and concentrate on the consonants, those "fossils" in the evolution of any language. The German word Zunge, for instance, might mystify the uninitiated unless he follows Hogben's advice to substitute T for the German Z. Similarly with the Spanish halcon, which leaps into intelligibility with Hogben's advice to trade...
...banker. In Rio, Lotta Macedo Scares, 54, a member of one of Brazil's oldest families, spends her days in baggy blue jeans and checkered shirt as a construction executive, bossing a $700,000 park-and-playground project bordering Guanabara Bay. Her compatriot, Sandra Cavalcanti, a Sorbonne-educated linguist, is organizing the National Housing Bank and has plans to finance several million private homes over the next 20 years. "Within three years," she vows, "the National Housing Bank will be more powerful than the Bank of Brazil...
...Nobelman Charles Townes came close to being a linguist, Nobelwoman Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 54, of Oxford, third woman ever to win the chemistry award,* came even closer to being an archaeologist. Born in Cairo while her father was Director of Education for the Sudan, she spent her early school holidays in digs in the Near East. But soon after she entered Oxford's Somerville College in 1928, she got caught up in the exciting mysteries of chemistry. By her second year, she was already concentrating on the intricacies of X-ray analysis of large, complicated molecules-the work that...
...Manhattan home shortly after his death. With it was an undated letter in which Hammarskjöld called the writings "a sort of white book concerning my negotiations with myself-and with God." Skillfully translated by W. H. Auden, with the help of a Swedish linguist, Markings is in turn earnest, pedestrian, paradoxical and noble. The first entry was written when Hammarskjöld was a college student of 20; the last, a few days before his plane crashed in Northern Rhodesia...