Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TELL NO MAN, by 73-year-old Adela Rogers St. Johns (444 pages; Doubleday; $5.95), is a soap opera of flapping metaphors and dangling syntax that asks: Can an "upstanding, up-and-coming, go-getting, moneymaking, sports-minded, about-town-business-and-Yale man" chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell...
...choice of words, the dislocated syntax, the archaisms like "trapt" or the frequent use of accents--all show a taste for the bitter, explosive, tactile qualities of words that few poets demonstrate in greater intensity than Dylan Thomas. Occasionally the language slides off into bluster, or mist...
...This syntax study not only leads to better understanding of language, but is a necessary forerunner of computer language translations...
...editors to make their magazine a challenging forum for student opinion. An issue devoted to a more specific problem within the area of African affairs would have, I think, been more effective. And most of the writing could have been better edited with an eye to paragraph structure and syntax. But the Dunster Political Review remains an interesting and informative magazine...
Fulbright pressed Taylor particularly hard, cutting him off and boring in with questions whose circumlocutory sentences and strangled syntax scarcely sounded worthy of a onetime Rhodes scholar. The Senator was especially dismayed by Taylor's suggestion that the Viet Cong might hope to win more in Washington than they could on the battlefield. Taylor patiently explained his thesis. Recalling France's "weakening will to continue the conflict" in 1954, he pointed out that "the home front and the political front had reached the conclusion that it was hopeless and hence that they must end the struggle very rapidly...