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...basically timorous band of bourgeois rebels. Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery. He takes women and abandons them, wrecks Cadillacs for the hell of it. deserts his friends. He talks a blue streak in a syntax-free jumble of metaphysics, hipster jargon, quotations from comic strips and animal gruntings. Describing the skills of a hot saxophonist. Dean cries: "Here's a guy and everybody's there, right? Up to him to put down what's on everybody's mind. He starts the first...
...dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly. To the surprise of network skeptics, The Last Word proved the sleeper of 1957, demonstrated that syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters a day from Americans who want answers to the tricky problems of the language they speak...
...home, there was little intelligent discussion. The Advocate last year published "our acceptance of Mr. Raditsa's challenge," and this fall published an editorial pleading in vague language, for simple language, less interested in simplicity than a windy theory of simplicity. The CRIMSON published a rather bored analyse de syntax. The administration's response was to advise the editors against publishing the course lectures of faculty members...
...Certain Smile, by Françoise Sagan. That Bonjour Tristesse girl does it again in a novel in which sin triumphs over everything but syntax (TIME...
...this kind of premature despair is Paris' intellectual gamin, Françoise Sagan, just turned 21. As readers who pushed the sales of Bonjour Tristesse past the million mark know, Sagan wears her world-weary rue with a spicy difference. In her novels, sin triumphs over everything but syntax. This high-styled amorality led one French critic to sum up her work as "classicism in panties...