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"Oh, God," moaned an overemotional Siamese consul in Singapore last week, "what will happen to our King now?" The answer to this rhetorical question-in a land which most Americans are apt to regard as a musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a...
Alfred Kazin, on the other hand, questions the whole modern tendency to judge a style in terms of abstract standards of readability without asking what it means to the writer himself. He condemns the critical attitude "intent on getting the audience to understand quickly, rather than on encouraging the writer...
Last week a faculty committee sat down with the trustees for a series of conferences, to thrash out the whole sorry affair. Caught in the middle, with little apparent relish for his dictatorial license, President Bevis addressed a rhetorical question to both sides: "Do you want my job?"
Even stated this simply, Buckley's case has a rhetorical appeal, enough so that the loud and intensive counter fire it has drawn from the Yale Daily News and a squad of Yale professors may be peculiarly ineffective. Buckley's thesis has too much superficial logic to stagger perceptibly under...
Having paid his respects to the Alsops, Columnist Krock ended the column with a burlesque of his own on-the-other-hand style, suitably dressed with historical allusions and rhetorical rickrack.