Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...presents one may give a priest, etc. But no Catholic, she believes, can be truly at ease in his church until he knows its mother tongue. In Your Catholic Language she gives a literal, interlinear translation of the Mass, side instructions that help readers pick up Latin vocabulary and syntax...
HARDY OF WESSEX-Carl J. Weber-Columbia University Press ($3). Centennial biography of the great tragic English novelist, which traces the originals of Hardy's Wessex characters. Hardy of Wessex offers an excellent dossier on Hardy's weaknesses-his melodramatics, re-use of plots, gnarled syntax, dullnesses-gives only a fuzzy clue to the central Hardy enigma: How, out of his sardonic imagination and crabbed style, could come scenes so vivid, characters so memorable...