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Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to allow verbatim quotation of his press conferences, and got an eight-year kidding for his sprawling syntax. Now it turns out that John Kennedy can also forget just where and how a sentence got started. In fact, it is a little hard to guess which President said what...
...Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command of the language. And ah, the phrasing...
Strangled Syntax. The first stop in the President's political week was Fort Smith, Ark., where he tarried just eight minutes between plane and helicopter to endorse Senator William Fulbright, already campaigning hard (TIME, Nov. 3) for re-election next year. But the blessings were brief and the syntax was strangled: "I served in the Senate of the U.S. for eight years with Senator McClellan as a member of the Rackets Committee-where he spoke for what is best in the U.S.; and with Senator Fulbright on the Foreign Relations Committee, who has worked for a strong...
...University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into Ciceronian syntax with words like "risible," "emolument," and "mentation." Then he turns around, describing the group's preference to stay apart when not working. "After the performance, it's Splitsville, Daddy...
...Wilson, however, was rather premature in submitting this story, and the Advocate has done him a positive disservice in printing it. Anyone who could write "Harry was a painter, his group was excited and wild, so Jody never fit in there," needs training in the fundamentals of English syntax, and greatly sharpened sensitivity in the semi-circular canals...