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...name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in linguistic analysis enabled this department to pioneer a mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the filed. He ran the department singlehandedly as a benevolent tyrant from 1926 until his retirement last June...
...GIFTS, by 1. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related...
Also two notable items of history: HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY, by Alan Bullock. Historian Bullock has revised his ten-year-old biography to include new evidence of the tyrant's megalomania. It is still the standard by which other studies of Hitler are to be measured...
Just as an unwary reader is about to decide that Pim is man in the hands of a tyrant deity, Bom himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests a supervisory being...
...GIFTS, by I. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related...