Carolina QuotesDrill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“The Power of the Word,” p. 53.
- work
- Language is Sermonic (1970)
- year
- 1970
- locator
- p. 53
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