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...family but for my youngest daughter (mercifully, she sleeps soundly), the prize for the year goes to a Harvard Crimson reporter. Having twice been told by my secretary that I was unreachable for that day, the reporter began calling home, reaching every member of the family seriatim as they arrived home from school or work. Each time the reporter was told the truth: they did not know where I was, but please do not call around 6 p.m. because we would be having dinner then. Whereupon the reporter gracefully called...
...material is clearly organized, with cross-references where appropriate. Carey takes up seriatim the various punctuationl signs: period, colon, semi-colon, comma, parentheses, brackets, exclamation and question marks, single and double quotation marks, hyphen, apostrophe, capitals, italics, and paragraph indentation. And, although they are somewhat ancillary to the main topic, he adds two chapters--one on proofreading (I found only two slips in proofreading in the whole book); and the other on common grammatical and stylistic errors in such matters as participial agreement, the barbarous use of "following" for "after," the "due to"-"owing to" distinction, the coupling of relative...
...Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
Your critical comment on T. S. Eliot and Murder in the Cathedral contains a number of absurdities, which I will point out seriatim. Imprimis, you call him dandiacal in appearance is so symbolically presented (in accordance with T. S. Eliot's own wishes) by the English players is to throw the emphasis on the spiritual struggle. You state that Becket is not inwardly lacerated, whereas the whole play is about his inward laceration; it is because the play is so introspective that it is hard to follow. As for your "Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...
...others 15?. Inside they climbed a dark stairway to a big covered platform. Hidden gas lamps above lit a circle of landscapes 15 ft. high. Soon a lecturer appeared and talked steadily through the audience's vicarious "Tour Through Italy." The canvas cylinder moved slowly, exposing seriatim the start in Boston Harbor, the rolling Atlantic, several hundred views of Italy and finally the return home to New York Harbor...