Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, there was little intelligent discussion. The Advocate last year published "our acceptance of Mr. Raditsa's challenge," and this fall published an editorial pleading in vague language, for simple language, less interested in simplicity than a windy theory of simplicity. The CRIMSON published a rather bored analyse de syntax. The administration's response was to advise the editors against publishing the course lectures of faculty members...
...Certain Smile, by Françoise Sagan. That Bonjour Tristesse girl does it again in a novel in which sin triumphs over everything but syntax (TIME...
...presidential nomination, checked out his ideas with party leaders, e.g., Missouri's Harry Truman, Georgia's Richard Russell and Texas' Lyndon Johnson, as he whipped up his speech. He made dry runs on Kinescope film to test his delivery, buffed and polished each polysyllabic pearl of syntax and rhetoric before his pretty blonde wife. This week he was ready with a keynote speech that was charged with a rare potential of metaphor, simile and alliteration, borrowed liberally from orators ranging from Cicero to Daniel Webster to Billy Graham...
...this kind of premature despair is Paris' intellectual gamin, Françoise Sagan, just turned 21. As readers who pushed the sales of Bonjour Tristesse past the million mark know, Sagan wears her world-weary rue with a spicy difference. In her novels, sin triumphs over everything but syntax. This high-styled amorality led one French critic to sum up her work as "classicism in panties...
...individual can); we say that it is irrelevant, that the book has to be read in spite of this, that the insights should be considered seriously though the style of presentation begs for the reader to throw it aside with a satiric comment on the author, or on the syntax of sentences that do not even ask to be read. The stupidity of the suggestions on "what is to be done," the embarrassment caused by the deliberate misrepresentations have immeasurably reduced the book's communication to the level (using one of Mr. Raditsa's own examples) of the Harvard Times...