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Down Mexico Way managed to be primer-like but not too cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...
...also President of the U.S. He summoned the disputants to the White House, told them off in language that had the forceful clarity of a long-suffering man boundlessly irked. To Steelmen Purnell, Fairless and Grace and the three chiefs of C.I.O., the President read the riot act in primer words: ". . . In the first place, we all know that the United States is in a state of national emergency. ... It is essential to national safety that we continue the defense production program without delay. . . . Coal for steel plants is a necessity because steel is an essential in the manufacture...
...author is James Burnham, assistant professor of philosophy at New York University, onetime co-editor of The New International, theoretical magazine of U.S. Trotskyists. He writes deliberately unemotional English with primer simplicity. The tone of his book is amoral, nonpartisan, scientific. The theory he expounds makes The Managerial Revolution as morbidly fascinating as a text book vivisection, possibly the most sensational book of political theory since The Revolution of Nihilism...
Kidding himself, breakfast foods, Mother, and "Orson," he sashayed through a primer that contained a lot of deft, well-timed writing. He produced some more than casually turned lyrics, and a good deal of information about what goes on in a radio studio.¶stood for Crossley ratings. M was for Mother ("All mothers are wise, and most of them speak with a sectional accent"). O was for Orson, celebrated in a lyric commencing "Who is Orson? What is he, that all the critics hail him?" and ending "All is well that ends with Welles." At Q, quizzes came...
...books about the U.S. Among his latest are Rauschning's The Redemption of Democracy (TIME, March 3), Patten's Mr. Frank Merriwell (see col. 1), Wells's All Aboard for Ararat (see p. 108). Koppell also has high hopes for Dorsha Hayes's The American Primer, a 152-page, vernacular introduction of the U.S. to U.S. citizens, somewhat along the lines of Ilin's New Russia's Primer...