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...plain-language requirement for health and accident policies. The new federal Pension Reform Act insists that company booklets be written "in a manner calculated to be understood by the average participant." And the new federal Warranty Law states that product warranties have to be "simple and readily understood." Linguist Flesch cautions that most of the rewrites do not yet rate a 60 on his scale-the level, he says, of the New York Daily News or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But be it hereinafter understood that whereas the aforementioned and previously established methodology of contract composition has been adjudged dull and devoid...
Westbrook made his comments to TIME Correspondent Joseph N. Boyce, who found the linguist living in a small apartment house near the Berkeley campus. The drapes were drawn, the door was double-latched, and on the kitchen table was an electronic device that Westbrook said could be used to alert the police...
...approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam Chomsky as a linguist--is downright boring, an object lesson in how words can get in the way of an explanation. But the book as a whole is remarkably rich; most of the interviews can stand rereading, and the lighter pieces in between make enjoyable breathing spaces...
...this in turn gives American students a distorted, outsiders' view of Arab culture. A major manifestation is a lack of scholars from the Arab world, particularly in contemporary studies. Harvard, for instance, has three Arabs on its tenured faculty, but two are medievalists and the third is a linguist. There are no tenured Arabs at all in the University of Chicago's Middle Eastern program, and only one in a staff of 15 at Berkeley...
...every liberal sees the conflict in terms quite that simple. Linguist Noam Chomsky of M.I.T., a radical opponent of U.S. Viet Nam policy, says that the crucial issue in the Middle East is "that both the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs claim some legitimate right to the same territorial area...