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...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the immigrant English class is back, just as funny as ever...
...Return of H*Y*M*K*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
...RETURN OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (192 pp.)-Leo Rosten, -Harper...
...teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes are unlikely to revive the vanishing art of dialect humor. To class repeaters, including Miss Mitnick. the blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik! 'Telephone' is Grik! All, all, all Grik!"). There is Mr. Trabish, whose hero is Paul Revere ("One by Land...