Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious each week. Instead of presidential golf at Palm Springs and Gettysburg, there was presidential golf at Palm Beach and Middleburg. New Frontier "task forces" had taken over from Eisenhower-era "study committees," but little seemed to be happening. Dwight Eisenhower had been criticized for his wandering press conference syntax; last week's Kennedy conference was as notable for its shapeless prose as for its muted tone...
...John Philips wouldn't be remembered at all if he had not had the nerve to parody Milton, which (despite the poet's odd syntax) is very difficult to do and which Phillips did rather well...
...survival rate of new record companies is less than 1%), Marianne and Barbara compiled a catalogue of releases that, to most merchandisers, read like a prospectus for bankruptcy-W. H. Auden declaiming Auden, Sir Ralph Richardson pacing gravely along Swann's Way, Faulkner grappling with his own syntax, an ailing Colette reading from her novels while the bed sheets rustled...
With the Yankees, Casey still played the clown. He outraged syntax and entranced sportswriters by spieling nonstop, serpentine sentences that turned the dullest subject into quotably confused copy: "The fella I got on third is hitting pretty good, and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming up has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what...
...pilot study in the uses of leisure. "Their rejection of the popular culture, Broadway theatre, status commodities, bespeaks robust mental health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning. The aim of conversation is for each one to be able...