Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RETURN OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (192 pp.)-Leo Rosten, -Harper...
Hyman Kaplan, the bagel Bonaparte, has returned from the island of Ellis. As in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N more than 20 years ago, English is his most beloved enemy, but Waterloo is not in his capricious vocabulary, and as the stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...
POEMS (194 pp.)-Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden-University of Michigan...
Victorious in a legal dispute with a group of local residents, the Armenian Holy Trinity Church will sign contracts today for the construction of its new $700,000 building at Brattle and Sparks Sts. Sarkis M. Zartarian, chairman of the church board, will sign a pact authorizing the J. J. Powers Company to build the traditional Armenian structure...