Unsure Dictionarians Define Who and Whom in English Usage
A 1961 to 1966 dictionary debate shows editors forming a usage panel of writers and professors to vote on expressions. Highlights include opinions on who versus whom, split infinitives, above as adjective or noun, and favored or rejected terms such as escalate and finalize, with notable remarks from Porter, Macdonald, Barzun, Asimov, Ogilvy, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times News Service
Webster
Random House
Houghton Mifflin
Dwight Macdonald
Katherine Anne Porter
Red Smith
Aimajority
Smith
Russell Lymes
Harper's Magazine
Bruce Catton
Lynes
Jacques Barzun
Columbia University
Isaac Asimov
John Bainbridge
Asimov
Prof
Barzun
Macdonald
John Fischer
Harper's
David Ogilvy
Ogilvy
Tanglewood
Jacqueline du Pre
Daniel Barenboim
Europe
Puerto Rico
Lenox
Saratoga
Josef
Rosina Shevinne
Helen Mayes
Charles MacArthur
Eugen
Gallery One Hosts Photo Exhibition by Elliot Fenander
Elliot Fenander, Mt. Greylock High School teacher and area artist, opens a photography show at Gallery One in Williamstown. He will greet visitors from 1 to 5 p.m. The exhibit features circus pictures exploring illusion versus reality, following a June Atlantic Monthly portfolio. Fenander has shown at Williams College and the Berkshire Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliot Fenander
Mt. Greylock High School
Williamstown
Fenander
Atlantic Monthly
Williams College
Berkshire Museum
Mukherjee Art Exhibition Opens in Stockbridge
Berkshire artist Sushil Mukherjee will open a one man show at Image Gallery Stockbridge with a 4 to 8 p.m. reception Sunday. His watercolors echo ancient Indian stone carvings from cave temples and reflect inspiration from a two year stay in native India. He has served as art critic for Statesman and shown in Calcutta New York Washington University of Wisconsin and Berkshiva Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sushil Mukherjee
Berkshire
Image Gallery
Stockbridge
Mukherjee
India
National Daily
Statesman
Calcutta
United States Information Service
New York
Washington, D.C
University of Wisconsin
Berkchiva Museum
Felix Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses A
Guggenheim
Gromet
Moses
Poetry Reading Slated Sunday at The Bookstore Lenox New Delhi
The event features Mi sle Mussum of Modern Art and Chael Gizzi reading poems to open the Lenox New Delhi show Two Decades. The session is free and open to the public this Sunday evening at 8 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mukherjee
Misle Mussum
Modern Art
Chael Gizzi
Lenox
New Delhi
Movie Timetable Explores Valley Cinemas and Showtimes
The Capitol lists Where Eagles Dare at 2:20 and 8:20 with shorts. Palace Peter Pan shows matinee 2:25 and evening runs including Run Appaloosa Run. Sunset and Berkshire drive-ins feature The Desperados and I Love You Alice B Toklas at dusk. Oliver! and The Chairman play at multiple screens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkshire Drive-In
Alice B. Toklas
Pittsfield Drive-In
Ducers
Hoosac Drive-In
Adams
West Springfield
Family duets and dynasties echo in arts and music
The passage surveys famous couples and families in art, music, and science who worked together or across generations. It cites Pierre and Marie Curie, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Rostropovich and Visti nevskaia, the Casadesus, De Pasquale, Valencias, Busch, Stein, Bach and their prolific kin, highlighting enduring collaborations and lineages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre and
Marie Curie
Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt
Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
Pianisits Vronsky
Rabin
Bartlett
Menuhing
Sturbis
Joe
Lillian Fuchs
Casadesus
de Pasquale
Flying Valencias
Ancestry of Musicians and Couples in Arts History
A survey of famous artist families notes many siblings and spouses who achieved distinction in music and the arts. It highlights the Haydns Rubinsteins Wieniawskis Ysays Schumanns and duos like Du Pré Barenboim Seefried Schneiderhan among others, plus a tale of Moses Mendelssohn and an unexpected marriage outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Haydn
Joseph
Rubinstein Brothers
Wieniawskis
Henri
Jozef
Ysayes
Eugen
Theodor
Clara
Robert Schumann
Siegfried Wagner
Ruth Posselt
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Richard Burgin
Eugene List
Carol Glenn
Irmgard Seefried
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
d'Albert
Teresa Carreno
d’Albert
Carreno
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New Yorker
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West Or
Sears & Co A
Jack Lemmon
Catherine Deneuve Aeaks
Gregory Peck
Anne Heywood
Uwrg
Francois Truffaut
Andrew Meyer
Ist
Lincoln Arts Film Festival
Berkshire Theatre Festival
Mass
S Bao Per li
Clint Eastwood
Columbus
Muatetal
Gautieve, CO
Big Ace Panavisian
Metrocolor
Disney
Palace
Run
Appa-loosa
Matinee
Oliver
Sun
Sunset Drive-In
Coury
North Adans
Leo Tolstoy
Berkshire Theatre, Festival
Pixie Judy
Pixie Judy Troupe
Calebrets
Yeu
Pixie
Judy West
Woda
Bagdad
Broadway
Busch
Adolf
Serkin
Fritz
Herman
Stein
Gert
Ein
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sebastian
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Erie Mi
Ashford
Pittsfield
Showtime
Ital
Shan Walls
Tee UK Lester Teas
Gene Toxid
Ack
Exretyey
Ridge
Massachusetts
Walau
Timon’s Beach
Tor
Uctons Fromm
England
Bos + pinsfield
Anglewood
Benet Berkshire Medical Center
Erich Leinsdorf
England's
Sammy Vincent's
City Savings Bank
Dalton
Silverneill's Drug Store
Red Lion Inn
Cailing
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