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...when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York wot is supposed to know their onions...
Lonqest Logger. During most of the year, the boob tube is left to what Princeton calls "the viz squad. At the University of North Carolina they are "tubeholics," at Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed...
...differ reasonably on such matters under the pressure of riots, occupation of building, strikes, ultimatums, and the rest of the tactics perfected in revolutionary situations and introduced for the first time in the United States into a university context; (4) that the injection of foreign elements into the dispute -- viz., the Teamsters' Union, CORE -- has aggravated the difficulty and represents a serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends...
...Though not so intended, an expression in your article on the Fifth Circuit Court [Dec. 4] does a serious injustice to my fellow Alabamians, viz.: "After his son's death in an auto accident, Judge Richard T. Rives was honored by his fellow Alabamians-they threw garbage on his son's grave...
...idea of a community of interest and experience among Negroes in the New World (viz., North America, South America--especially Brazil--and the Caribbean) is more than a century old, and possibly older. (See writings of Africans like Sarbrah, Hayford, Azikiwe; Negro Americans like DuBois, Delaney; the French West Indian Rene Maran). In the late 19th century educated Africans in West Africa were articulating such a position--often without having had direct contact with new World Negroes--and Negroes in the Caribbean and North America were doing likewise. More recently, Negro intellectuals in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa have...