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...Loom of Language (W. W. Norton; $3.75) contains 692 pages of Swiss Philologist Frederick Bodmer's solid lore about meaningful human noise, enlivened by bright pictures and the "irresponsible or facetious remarks" of Editor Hogben, a former colleague of Bodmer at the University of Cape Town. The Loom is lively, but no cinch to read. Hogben recommends an old-fashioned as a preliminary...
...Loom's great interest for most readers lies not in its highly colored plans or prophecies, but in its homely texture of facts about language. Samples...
...Swiss newspapers, then spent eleven years on Cape Town University's faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa's speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben's Highland croft, is now working on another book in London's intellectual Bloomsbury...
Certain activities along the Rio Grande last week suggested that Texas wages sometimes loom larger to Mexicans than Texas racial discrimination (TIME, Feb. 7). Word got about that Mexicans were sneaking across the Rio Grande, violating their own Government's embargo and taking jobs on undermanned Texas farms...
Britain, until now the main base of the air offensive against Germany, may soon be a secondary base. North Africa, Sicily, Italy will soon loom large in strategic bombing of Germany, and they may well overshadow Britain...