Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control, Hemingway became a parody of himself. Military parlance, scrambled syntax, bravado posturing descended on his magazine pieces like an awful curse. Look bought "The Christ mas Gift," Hemingway's 1954 account of near death in two plane crashes in Africa. What Look published was a mawkish self-portrait of the Hemingway hero emerging from the jungle with two bunches of bananas, four bottles of Carlsberg beer and a jug of Grand MacNish. At 54, he was ready to take the count...
...George's only sin," quipped a Detroit reporter recently, "is his syntax." He can blunder horribly through sentences, as in this appraisal of the domino theory in Vietnam when the U.S. committed land troops: "Well, I think the situation is quite different today than it was then, and I think that this is obvious as a result of our having become more involved there and as a result of other nations who are involved with us today that were not involved to the same extent in that period...
Canada's All-Purpose Prophet Marshall McLuhan, soon to be enchaired at Fordham University, has argued for years that the book is obsolescent. Unfortunately, his major testaments (The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media), while full of ideas, were rendered virtually unreadable by soporific syntax and mastodonian metaphors. Now, with the artful aid of a graphics designer, Quentin Fiore, McLuhan gets his message across more appropriately by juxtaposing his text with pictures. The result is a punchy put-on, to be sure, but that only serves to make a point: McLuhan has never taken himself as seriously as his critics have...
...note on Tate's manuscript was "a robust amused declarative style." This is a reasonable first impression. Tate has created graceful balances with the potentially disastrous load of fact his senses yield him; and he has done it largely by virtue of his metaphorical muscle. His rhythms and his syntax tend to confirm the analogies he suggests, Thus, in "Pastoral Scene...
Root of Rage. The new Manheim translation makes more accessible to U.S. readers the astonishing virtuosity of Céline's style, which broke out of the formal gavotte of French grammar and syntax-and used all the resources of thieves' argot, slum slang, and the shoptalk of pimps, prostitutes, bums, and pickpockets-to demonstrate the power and quality of his love of life and hatred for those who must live it. Coprological images-excrement, pus, gangrene, all the humiliating ironies of bodily decay-crowded this doctor's mind. Still, his language no longer shocks; today...