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Hitchens, Christopher
| July 30, 1990 issue
When English lexicographer, writer and critic Samuel Johnson had completed his great lexicography of the English language, he was congratulated on all sides....
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Quinn, Jim
| September 27, 1986 issue
The article focuses on the book "The Story of English," by Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil. English is both a simple and difficult language....
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Quinn, Jim
| January 23, 1982 issue
Analyzes the syntax of the American English language. Normal idioms of English language; Grammar usage; Use of suffixes.
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Quinn, Jim
| December 22, 1979 issue
Reviews the book "Less Than Words Can Say," by Richard Mitchell.
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Alloway, Lawrence
| July 5, 1971 issue
This article focuses on the gradual evolution 20th century art. The last major change in the field of art was, after World War II, when art history was...
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Norton, P. E.
| May 4, 1957 issue
The article focuses on the book "A Dictionary of American-English Usage," by Margaret Nicholson. The publishers speak of this American adaptation of "A...
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Gibson, Walker
| November 29, 1958 issue
Even though clichés, dead metaphors and triteness have always been inseparable from any use of words, the present-day self-conscious anxiety about...
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Bergonzi, Bernard
| May 23, 1959 issue
The article focuses on the American image of English class structure. Class as a subject for self-conscious discussion is itself a product of the partial...
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Marshall, Margaret
| August 7, 1948 issue
The article focuses on a booklet called "Plain Words, a Guide to the Use of English," by Sir Ernest Gowers. It was prepared at the invitation of the British...
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van Doren, Mark
| April 18, 1934 issue
The article discusses the book "Seven Gothic Tales," by Isak Dinesen. If, as Dorothy Canfield lets fall in an introduction to the book, the pseudonymous...
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