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...Singular Opinions. Despite his efforts to keep world peace, Paul's principal duty is still to keep the faith. Recently a group of Catholic theologians, mostly Netherlander, have been pondering whether bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ when they are consecrated (transubstantiation), or whether the change is simply a matter of their significance ("transignification...
Almost anyone can spot the glaring flaws in this sentence: "I ain't got no pencil." But the English language can set subtler traps. What's the difference, for instance, between sewerage and sewage? Is the word "whereabouts" singular or plural? When does a pupil become a student? Find the errors in these sentences: "Dave Beck pleaded innocent today to a charge of grand larceny." "At least twelve hawks are making their homes atop city skyscrapers and zooming down to snatch pigeons." "Mr. Smith was changing a flat tire when a second car collided with his automobile...
...Bernstein's answers: sewerage is the system through which sewage flows. Whereabouts is singular. A pupil becomes a student, according to Bernstein anyway, upon entering high school. Since U.S. justice presumes a defendant's innocence, Beck did not plead innocent; he pleaded not guilty. Hawks, etc. zoom in one direction only: up. It takes two moving cars to collide. Mr. Getty made his fortune; it did not make itself...
Until Phyllis McGinley, no poet had ever successfully domesticated the muse, or, for that matter, had even tried to. Her singular achievement is that she has brought off the match without undue strain on either partner. The Hayden household in Larchmont rang to the rhythms of recited poetry. "We used to sit around the fire while she read it to us," Daughter Julie recalls. "It was mostly ballads-and Yeats and Chesterton too. She chose dramatic stuff because she believes that poetry should appeal to the emotions. Mother and Patsy would always cry at the sad parts...
...national Republican Coordinat ing Committee, which first met in March to get the G.O.P. working to gether again after the 1964 electoral fiasco, assembled in Washington last week - and showed a singular lack of coordination...