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Critics, says Walter Jackson Bate, are most fond of authors with complex styles. By this standard Horace is the perfect subject, since an inflected language gave him almost total liberty with word placement, and an ingrown poetic tradition furnished him with limitless chances for allusion. Commager nimbly unravels the syntax and shows how it functions artistically, indeed visually, throughout the odes. He is extremely alert to Horace's sophisticated manipulstion of such literary conventions as the pastoral and the spring song. Horace, as Commager proves, used these stock patterns as the basis for subtle and ambivalent statements about love...
...four lines of reasoning to a single problem and he usually preferred the indirect approach where it would serve him better than the direct attack on a problem. His mind was quick and facile. His thoughts far outraced his speech and this gave rise to his frequent 'scrambled syntax...
Money Makes Money. Born in Austria and raised in Baltimore, Weinberg quit school in sixth grade to help out in his father's auto repair shop. This left him short on the niceties of syntax (for ex ample, he says of former Fifth Avenue Coach Chairman Howard Cullman: "He was entrusted of these stockholders with their money and he done as chairman a very bad job"). But Weinberg is a near genius at numbers...
Fractured Syntax...
Allow me to congratulate you for printing "Syntax Problem" [Jan. 26]. For years I have been trying to decide whether I had lost "Mr. President" or he had lost...