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...letters' stilted syntax and the use of words like "curs" seem caricatures of American polemics. The letterheads include hyphens between "Ku" and "Klux," a style rarely used by the myriad of self-proclaimed K.K.K. groups in the U.S., which also tend to refer to their organizations by fuller names. State Department experts were analyzing copies of the letters for further evidence that they were a shoddy attempt to reinforce Soviet claims that Los Angeles presents a security risk to foreign athletes. Said Samuel Royer, Maryland Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...advanced stages of candidate fatigue are obvious. "I can tell," Mondale says. "My syntax starts going first." Press Secretary Maxine Isaacs notes that his looks go too: "He gets big bags under his eyes." Other aides say Mondale gets grouchy as long days wind down...
DIED. Richmond Lattimore, 77, distinguished American poet and classical scholar whose literal yet lyrical translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were widely praised for their scrupulous adherence to the original Greek metrical pattern and syntax; of cancer; in Rosemont, Pa. A professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College from 1935 to 1971, Lattimore also produced five volumes of original poetry, which earned him critical praise and, only last month, a $10,000 award from the Academy of American Poets...
...have had a frog in my throat for some time now, and of course with me this develops almost instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that is the way I'm built." He was also constructed, as this biography makes clear, to share his mastery of English syntax with countless readers, who seek out E.B. White's prose the way an older generation gravitated toward dark, warm-smelling barns or clear wild pools. He was given much; unlike most of his small, happy company, he has given more in return...
...they have a strong 3 classical bias, fixed by a long study of Ingres. (The shoulders of Ingres's women, rising in sublime lunar complacency from their Empire decolletages or, naked, from the Turkish tiles, had much to do with de Kooning's syntax then.) The result was that the very paintings that secured de Kooning's reputation as a key figure in abstract expressionism, a painter hardly less "radical" than Pollock, were grounded in classical prototype and practice: if his paintings of the decade 1945-55 looked a mile forward, they also looked two miles back...