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...preserved soul is evident in everything that he does. As the highest-paid man in industry ($637,233 in salary and bonuses last year), he commutes to Detroit from Flint, where he lives simply with his wife in an eleven-room house that is cared for by only one servant. (Daughters Dorothy Anne, 21, and Catherine Dale, 17, are away at school; Mary Leila, 25, is married.) On weekends he likes to drop in on the nearby Buick division, shoot the breeze with anyone from a sweeper to a foreman...
...spite of the fame of Henry W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Britons never coined the verb "to fowlerize." But in official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean...
...says Sir Ernest, the modern official might well take his cue from his counterparts of centuries ago, when a Minister of Finance could write a senior civil servant...
Decision on the Golf Course. Emily was as beautiful as she was good, and Billy fell head over heels in love with her. Things seemed to be going well enough between them until one October night, when she told him that she wanted to marry a servant of God who would do big things-and it was clear to her that Billy would never amount to much. Instead, she had decided to marry a fellow student who was going to Harvard Divinity School...
Former President Eliot "put University education immediately at the service of Capitalism," and Pusey is trying to return science "to its medieval position of servant to the Church," so that the financial monopolies may remain in control. So say the Russians...