Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leave It to Jane (Dot LP). Singer Jane Harvey, a girl who can put a promise in a pronoun, swings her way through some convincingly heart-frayed reveries on the loving game-Misty, Everything But You, Lover in the House. In more antic mood, she belts the bromides out of Sent for You Yesterday and Witchcraft...
...novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...
Bull by the Horns. For 26 minutes the President belted away. Would he care to comment on Stevenson's claims that the G.O.P. is attempting to seize partisan credit for civil-rights progress-for example, in the armed forces? Ike would and did. Frequently using the pronoun "I," which he generally shuns, he spoke feelingly of his efforts to foster military desegregation during World War II. As far as he knew, Ike said, he was the first combat commander who ever incorporated Negroes into white units on the battlefield, and "they all got along together." Thus, when the Administration...
...noticed in your Dec. 12 issue two letters criticizing President Eisenhower's use of the pronoun "I." I often stand in amazement, and wonder just what keeps these disgruntled English teachers alive. These letters of criticism show bad taste and poor timing...
...what if Ike misused a pronoun? What about the language Harry Truman uses when referring to Dick Nixon? The very idea...