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Notes and Asides.(Column)
--Dear Mr. Buckley: I have been an avid reader of Notes & Asides for years. As one married to a foreigner (Japanese), I have seen up close the difficulties so many people have with the English language (to be honest, I have just as many with Japanese). The following are biting examples of some of the idiosyncrasies in English:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 5) Since there is no time like the present, he decided to present the present. 6) When shot at, the dove dove. 7) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 8) The buck does funny things when does are present. 9) A seamstress and a sewer fell into the sewer. 10) The farmer taught his sow to sow. 11) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 12) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
I would enjoy seeing some more examples.
Sincerely yours,
Theodore D. Shaw
Virginia Beach, Va.
--Dear Mr. Buckley: Years ago I came across Mortimer Adler's How to Think About God. He closed reminding the reader that the god whose existence he proved was not the God of the Bible. He said that that God could be believed in only by a "leap of faith."
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- Magazine article from: KMWorld Weinberger, David October 1, 2005 700+ words
Mortimer Adler devotes much of A Guidebook to Learning: For the Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom...with some exceptions--because it failed to represent the grandeur of God's organization of the world. The great French Encyclopedia of the second...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Bob Herguth December 18, 1987 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) June 29, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business MOORE, ANNE June 2, 2003 700+ words
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- How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan.
- Magazine article from: National Review Scully, Matthew October 21, 1991 700+ words
...various arguments for belief in God. We're in luck, though...Adler's How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-Century...reasonable grounds for affirming God's existence." Beyond this...been identified as the pet of Mortimer Adler, the author of this book...
- La prueba de Dios.(TT: God's test.)
- Magazine article from: Contenido González de Alba, Luis March 1, 2000 700+ words
Mortimer Adler es editor de The Great Ideas Today, coleccin de la Enciclopedia Britnica. Adler es un creyente de gran inteligencia y ha propuesto...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Coyne, John R., Jr. April 4, 1994 700+ words
...by an encounter with Mortimer Adler, the University of...contract was torpedoed by Mortimer Adler--because Regnery had dared to publish God and Man at Yale. This...Bill Buckley, he found Mortimer Adler. "Mortimer," he...