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Broken Commandments. Such puns often rile some viewers into protests. But the Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences...
...only read TIME to see what new slur it has for the white people of the South, whether it is race trouble in Georgia or Mississippi, or a goose pulling in South Carolina...
...then, as reporters bolted for telephones. And as soon as Engine Charlie's latest hit the front pages, the predictable sound-off began in virtually every state. Some called Charlie's statement asinine, illadvised, ridiculous, foolish and absurd. Georgia's governor rapped it as "a dastardly slur," Wyoming's as "an un-American utterance." Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 69, president of the potent National Guard Association, called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state, and the Rhode Island senate passed...
Nothing would erase Charlie Wilson's slur on the honor of the U.S. Senate. Its armed services special subcommittee on airpower listened unbendingly as Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles tried to head off the proposed increase. The Air Force, he said, already has "the most powerful striking force on earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven...
...faculty has joined in the new mood -notably the scientists. "Religion used to be disreputable-a slur on the intellect," says History Don Harry Pitt, fellow of Worcester College. "We now feel that the brain need not be pulpy to embrace religion...