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Terror on Broadway by David Alexander (Random House; $2.75) is written in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to English but is actually Broadwayese. In Novelist Alexander's hands, it is a blunt instrument that he uses to hammer out the unhappy saga of Waldo. Waldo is a psychopathic killer who gets a boyish kick out of playing ticktacktoe with a knife on the bodies of the ladies he dispatches. It is perfectly clear at the very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted...
Your March 15 article, "Woe Throughout the Nomes," reads: "As it was in the beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif." Being a "Mainiac" for some 23 years, your reference to Wallagrass has me stumped. Maine has its Waldo, its Winnegance, and its Wiscasset; but where, pray tell, is its Wallagrass...
James Russell Lowell selected some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's verse for an epitaph which was carved on the stone immortalizing...
Professor Waldo Sweet [TIME, July 20] is right in using the Berlitz method to make his students of Latin talk Latin: Loqui loquendo distilur (Talk is learned by talking) is the Berlitz motto...
...professor. "Pes," answered the class. Actually, the students knew all about pes and oculus already: they were Latin teachers of many years' standing. But last week at the University of Michigan, they did not mind starting from scratch, learning the latest teaching methods of a linguistics expert named Waldo Sweet...