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...lower depths of an interrogation cell-is always baffled by language difficulties. The two biggest Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius, and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot, whatever national form its utterance takes; it aspires to give a new frame for human thought...
...until grammar becomes a matter of opinion, and vocabulary an artistic style, "amo, amas, amat" must rule the language classroom. Sermons will not change instructors' attitudes toward verb declensions. To enliven and modernize the language teaching, the Faculty must recognize the inherent difference between instruction in language, and teaching in the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities...
...side with enthusiasm. Oklahoma's big Bob Kerr and Illinois' professorial Paul Douglas indulged in a colloquy designed to heap ridicule on the opposition. Douglas asked if Kerr would like to know why a part of the Eisenhower Administration's tax policy "is like the Latin verb aio."* Kerr allowed that he would. Smirked Douglas: "It is present, it is imperfect, and it has no future...
...vote of confidence." And Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, a foursquare McCarthyite, had remarked, hours before the last vote was taken: "You don't censure a man to death. You condemn him to death." Senator Watkins pointed out that the historic verb in Senate censure resolutions is "condemn...
...spite of the fame of Henry W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Britons never coined the verb "to fowlerize." But in official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean...