Volume 9, Number 1 · July 13, 1967
Color It Orange
By Nigel Dennis
The Innocent Party
by John Hawkes
New Directions, 239 pp., $5.00
'The rage for expressing everything in terms of something else is a disease traceable to college-catalogue English. From 1900 on a college course was hardly respectable if it did not offer to present literature in terms of its social effects, an author in terms of his influence on the development of this or that form, history in terms of underlying economic forces, geography in terms of transportation and commerce, and so on. It was not long before academic writers found themselves unable to finish a paragraph without using in terms of.'
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