Word: grammarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one more did--Benjamin Larnel, class of 1716. According to President Leverett, Harvard's last Indian student was "An Acute Grammarian." On top of that he was "An Extraordinary Latin Poet, and a good Greek one." But he did not survive the Cambridge winter of his freshman year...
...demonstrated that sometimes the best way to get what is wanted or needed is simply to take it, regardless of laws or traditions. "Let the politicians stop playing patsy," said a striking New York teacher, who could never be confused with kindly Mr. Chips-or an old-fashioned grammarian. "This is baloney about not having the money. They can dig it up if they want it bad enough...
Bravely, Britain's Anthony Burgess, novelist (A Clockwork Orange) and Joyce scholar (Re Joyce), has threaded the labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...
...CAREFUL WRITER, by Theodore M. Bernstein. A compendium of grammatical gaffes-everyday and esoteric-that is a reference book and an entertaining brushup on basic English. It will grow wings on any fledgling grammarian gadfly...
...knows most of the answers is Ted Bernstein, assistant managing editor of the New York Times and the paper's unofficial grammarian.* His wry bulletins to the staff have disciplined loose Times talk for 14 years. Compiled into two books, Watch Your Language and More Language That Needs Watching, they have sold nearly 100,000 copies and have established Bernstein as a guide whose influence is not confined to journalism. The Careful Writer could be subtitled The Compleat Bernstein...