Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politicians, executives and other people afflicted with speechmaking have taken to telephoning Can You Top This? for material. The Senator and his colleagues usually oblige, but they seldom give away much. Sample giveaway for corporation lawyers-Professor to student: "Give me a definition of syntax." Student: "My god, have they got a tax on that...
...than other people talk with their tongues.) To preach a sermon vocally and sign it at the same time is like preaching in two languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make sense. "Man, working, tall, house, fall" means "A man working on the roof of a tall house fell...
...Syntax. In his spare time, Rowlandson became a great London swell. Extra money for gambling debts could the always be leading had print from publisher Rudolph of the Ackermann, time. For Ackermann, Rowlandson illustrated the popular satirical picture book Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. (Today a Rowlandson-illustrated first edition has brought as much as $3,100 from book collectors...
...verse, highly accomplished throughout, is more personal and lyric and, though not intrinsically better than the stories, is much more exciting formally. The most ambitious is Dunstan Thompson's "Memorare." A little over-insistent and even incoherent in its syntax, it is an intricately graceful and deeply moving poem. Only in "Memorare" incidentally, except for the advertisements, is there any reference to the war. Mr. Thompson also contributes the only characteristically youthful note to the issue in his arrogant review of "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore, in which he pours bitter scorn, inappropriate and incommensurate for its object, upon...
Miss Chase has mastered almost too well the English fiction on which she lectures. She writes in the great genteel evasive tradition, clean as Jane Austen and rather sweeter. Windswept is a treasury of sound thoughts and syntax whose spiritual dimension is revealed in such passages as this...