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...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...
...Riley Parker, who dedicated the renovated Boylston in 1960, demanded "Now that you have nice facilities, what are you going to do with them?" The German Department's answer was to match the facilities with teaching skill. They had already brought Stein with his modern audio-lingual and anti-grammarian philosophy from Columbia in 1958. In his newly-established position as co-ordinator of Language Instruction in the German Department, Stein developed the present teacher-training course...
Died. Clyde Tingley, 77, two-term Governor of New Mexico (1935-39) who was born in an Ohio log cabin, became proudly skilled as a political logroller (boasting that he brought $100 million in New Deal projects to the state) and proudly independent as a grammarian ("I ain't gonna quit saying 'ain't'"); of a heart attack; in Albuquerque. A vanishing echo of The Last Hurrah school, Tingley ran Albuquerque politics for 37 years from a hotel-lobby easy chair...
...confesses. "They bore me." The quite unique reason why he is bored by vacations: "They cost a hell of a lot of money, when you could be more comfortable at home and accomplish something. I'm past the age when I can enjoy looking at ruins." But Grammarian Evans will have one consolation on his trip. Says he: "I'm going to take along a pile of books...