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...change verbs to nouns, and thus eliminate the true subject of the sentence. Some common verb-to-noun endings that should be avoided are: ing, -tion, -al. For example, use "we removed" instead of "the removal...
...individual. Therefore it lent itself to the suppression of dissenters and vidual. Therefore it lent itself to the suppression of dissenters and the extermination of opponents. Lenin, with his knack for hortatory pungency, reduced the past and future alike to two pronouns and a question mark: "Who-whom?" No verb was necessary. It meant who would prevail over whom? And the question was largely rhetorical, implying that the answer was never in doubt. Lenin and those who followed him would prevail over "them," whoever they were...
...doomed predecessor--the thrown-away thousands of pages--Fish is a lean volume, just 217 pages. It concerns the narrator, a private school teacher named Karp by his parents but nicknamed Fish by his girlfriend, who tries to escape from a life of "vagueing," in the author's memorable verb. Through Fish, his pathetic girlfriend and her mysteriously ailing son, the book is a portrait of a peculiar American social stratum, the educated middle class--the people whose material needs are inevitably satisfied and whose spiritual needs go inexorably unmet. They are the people who keep psychologists busy and urban...
...King James is no longer the single predominant American Bible, though, for a number of reasons. First, it is often confusing, especially for the young. The problem goes well beyond thee and thou or verb forms like loveth. Numerous words have changed meaning over the centuries. In current terms feeble-minded in 1 Thessalonians 5: 14 ("Comfort the feebleminded, support the weak ...") actually means fainthearted. Today King James syntax is hard going for a general public better attuned to thrillers than Shakespeare...
...collection. The show is curated by the leading active expert in Leonardo studies, Carlo Pedretti, with a catalogue preface by his predecessor in that role, Kenneth Clark. The result is a triumph of connoisseurship and presentation, as well as a demonstration of the real meaning of the verb "to draw...