Strictly Speaking

副标题: Will America Be the Death of English?

ISBN: 9780672519901

出版社: Bobbs-Merrill Company

出版年: 1974-10

定价: USD 9.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

r Wqll America be the death of English? I m glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. The outlook is dire; it is a later point in time i than you think. The evidence is all around us: In March??? 1974??? the White House press secretary??? Ron Ziegler??? explained a request for a four-day extension of a ~:ub- poena from the Watergate prosecutor for certain files. The exten- sion was needed??? Ziegler said??? so that James St. Clair??? President ?????? Nixon s attorney??? could \"evaluate and make a iudgment in terms of a response.\" We are all of us ready to man the barricades for the right to evaluate and make a judgment in terms of a response??? but Ziegler could have said that St. Clair wanted more time to think