Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thorpe, received former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is an old friend from the Eisenhower days, and sat with groups of businessmen, labor and youth leaders, educators and editors. The British are tough judges, but they were taken with their visitor. Said one official who talked with him: "His syntax was secure. That's a rather new experience with recent American Presidents. His sentences have a beginning, a middle...
...world's various languages began when enough people in some area were able to agree that certain sounds meant roughly the same thing most of the time. It was never more magical than that. All of the complications of syntax and tense and the diagramming of sentences and the like, which have confused so many of us for so long, spring not from the origins of the language but from the efforts of scholars to figure out after the fact how it works...
...pages; $22.95). The book offers the illuminating experience of hearing a sculptor speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
...syntax, too, goes beyond even Henry James and Virginia Woolf. He twists and doubles back so much, one often has to parse his verse to make it come out, and even then it doesn't always work...
...image. On the platform, his head barely rises above the bulletproof lectern he takes with him everywhere. On the TV screen, he comes over as a cross between Flem Snopes and Huey Long. An uninspired orator, with a set, almost unvarying speech, he seems intentionally to mangle his syntax and mispronounce words. Yet he is the only presidential candidate in the fall of 1968 who could be called charismatic...