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Unruffled Manner. "Foreign correspondents," one fourth leader observes, "often attribute the content of a dispatch to 'usually well-informed circles,' and there is something very striking about the phrase. The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt. It implies that the correspondent has found these circles to be reliable in the past, but it sounds at the same time a note of caution. 'You know what these foreigners are,' it seems to say; 'don't blame me if they've got hold...
...simple and homespun and applaud when Feikema challenges (unsuccessfully) the tyranny of grammar. He has the sort of poetic gift that gets in the way of a good prose, and his recipe for flavoring his concoction is "salt-and-peppering the whole with many a dark adjective and adverb"-not to mention verbs. When Thurs wanted to get from one place to another, he "moosed," "giraffed" or "cameled" around the campus. Some other Feikema verbs: to clumse, to gulk, to fladder...
...word-number makes a plural (man is 330, men is 330X). There are no articles, conjugations of verbs or declensions of nouns (except for the possessive case). Parts of speech are indicated by zeroes (democracy, the noun, is 8730; democratize, the verb, 87300; democratic, the adjective, 873000; democratically, the adverb, 8730000). Says Petelka...
...Fadiman's taste is excellent and genuinely diversified. (The adverb must be added hastily when one remembers the apparently wide range of interests of the average New York Times book-reporter.) "Reading I've Liker" is an unpretentious collection which represents various aspects of that taste. The book does include, for example, the whole of James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" (which any Thurber-connoisseur will tell you is the master's chef-d'ocuvre), stories by Maugham, Beerbohm, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, excerpts from Eve Curie and Fowler's "Modern English Usage," and Judge Woolsey's decision...
...will have some influence on American writing. The taste of the fastidious will always lead them to prize the sweet restraints of good English usage. But for God's sake, TIME, stop "upping." If you "up" one thing more "a thumping -%" I will up my lunch. "Up" is adverb, preposition, adjective, and noun. Even in TIME'S conscience isn't that enough...