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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...
Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all her secrets in booze. Puffy, plainspoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at 47 has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress...
...Dahood's translation, which tries to evoke the brisk, rugged quality of Hebrew poetry, is certain to cause both scholarly debate and popular dismay. Like all modern scholars, Dahood has access to more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
...about the Eisenhower and Kennedy years when press conferences were regularly scheduled well ahead of time and there were no rude surprises, no unventilated rooms with not enough chairs to go around. It would almost seem they have already forgotten how much they grumbled about Ike's scrambled syntax and Kennedy's agility at ducking embarrassing questions...
...have no pleasant memories. The Austrian schools were just as bad, but at least they taught me German. Like most Continental systems, we studied about twenty-five subjects with twenty-five dogmatic texts. We missed all the beauty of Latin poetry because we were too busy studying grammar and syntax. We learned the techniques of calculus without understanding them--I can still do calculus problems in my sleep...