Word: linguists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurt was in high school, the ruinous inflation of the 1920s was sweeping Germany. Deciding to become a teacher, he left Ebingen for a small Catholic academy in a nearby town, where he got a first-class education, mastered the organ, piano and violin, and became something of a linguist (today he speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian). After graduating in 1925, the young teacher found himself only another among Germany's millions of unemployed. But he had taken to writing poetry, and this proved to have a practical value. A millowner in Ebingen read some of Kurt's published...
...centerpiece of this issue is clearly Noam Chomsky's "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," adapted from a talk he gave to the Hillel Foundation here in March. It is fruitless to attempt a sentence-two precis of Chomsky's 15-page argument. I will say only that the world-reknowned linguist has constructed the most coherent and moving defense I have read of the "moral" perspective in politics...
...Linguistics itself is the study of a lot of languages most people have never heard of, that are central to the development of some civilization. In a sense, the field stands about midway between mathematics and anthropology. The linguist studies the structure of a language with technics approaching mathematical precision; yet he also tries to relate languages' development, to human affairs...
...Maurer, 63, the lawyer son of a wealthy member of the prewar bourgeoisie, is suave, cultivated, and was enough of a linguist during World War II to spring Dej from prison: dressed in an officer's uniform and purring perfect German, he waved a handful of spurious orders and marched off with a detachment of prisoners, Dej and Ceausescu included...
...plot is an updated modification of My Fair Lady. For a flower girl Lerner substitutes a girl who grows flowers. While Doolittle went to a bachelor linguist to have her accent repaired, Daisy Gamble goes to a bachelor psychiatrist to cure her "hallucinations." Daisy suffers from extrasensory perception (ESP), which means that she answers telephones before they have a chance to ring. An imaginative situation for a musical to be sure, but so far we are still in New York City, and everyone knows an Alan Lerner show must somehow trudge back to historical England...