Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Faculty members of the committee are Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House; Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Charles A. Whitney, professor of Astronomy; Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology; Harold Amos, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; and John F. Kain, associate professor of Economics...
Just for the fun of it, William A. Stewart had translated Clement Moore's famous poem into a loose imitation of ghetto language as a Christmas greeting from the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington. By chance, a twelve-year-old Negro girl with a serious reading problem picked up the parody in Stewart's presence. To his astonishment, she breezed through it with ease. Yet when she was asked to try Moore's original, she fumbled and stammered over the words, exhibiting all her old reading difficulties...
...Linguist Stewart's eyes, this modest and unplanned experiment is one more proof of a challenging and controversial thesis put forward by a small and informal coterie of investigators who call themselves "the Cultural Mafia." Afro-American culture, they contend, is not a poor imitation of its white American counterpart but a fully developed life-style of its own. By their reasoning, the origin of the little girl's reading trouble is really simple: compared with her customary ghetto speech, standard English is virtually a foreign language...
Black Laughter. Nor, they hasten to add, is it necessarily a superior one. Although educational psychologists have long insisted that Negro dialect shows all the characteristics of cultural deprivation, Stewart and his fellow investigators argue that linguistically it is as rich and diverse as standard spoken English. Many white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start...
...number six man, Joe Tibbetts coasted by Brian Dowling's roommate chuck Stewart. Tibbetts beat Stewart 3 and 1, even though Stewart drove the ball farther than any other golfer in the match...