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...page opposite Pillsbury's balanced complexity in the April 29 Crimson. Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke of "clean anger" and struggle as concommitants of any caring and lucid analysis of our social condition. Most of the tenants going on strike have already intuited the deeper reality--perhaps because they are on the butt end of it--and have come up with necessary virtues to boot. Pillsbury will now have to decide, "on balance." Whether to side with them or evict them. James A. Sleeper School of Education
Died. Sir Godfrey Driver, 82, Oxford University biblical scholar who headed the New English Bible's team of Old Testament translators for more than two decades; in Oxford. One of the most significant revisions of Holy Writ in this century, the N.E.B. is marked by lucid and often majestic prose that eliminates archaisms such as "thee" and "thou" unless characters are addressing the Deity. One exception: in the prologue to Job, Satan casually greets God with the familiar "you." Explained Translator Driver: "Satan is the Devil, and is allowed to be bumptious...
...tough-minded about the blandishments and attendant sacrifices of superstardom. Director Michael Apted and Scenarist Ray Connolly (who also wrote That'll Be the Day) are most adept at getting across the quality of quick chaos that attends this kind of celebrity, and they excel at making both lucid and scary the business dealings of an unwary superstar...
...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
...advertising, and especially, the growth of democracy all contributed to the "linguistic pollution" characteristic of our times. Watergate's value lies in its forcing the American people to look back at our past, when the Founding Fathers had a "profound conviction of historical responsibility" and wrote with a "lucid, measured and felicitous prose, marked by Augustan Virtues of harmony, balance and elegance...