Outlines

Politics and the English Language:

I.                    Introduction (Examples of Bad Passages)

A.      Excerpt from Prof. Harold Laski’s Essay in Freedom of Expression

B.      Excerpt from Prof. Lancelor Hagben’s Interglass

C.      Excerpt from Essay on Psychology in Politics (New York)

D.      Excerpt from a communist pamphlet

E.       Excerpt from a letter in Tribune

II.                  Common Errors

A.      Dying Metaphors

B.      Operators on Verbal FalseLimbs

C.      Pretentious Diction

D.      Meaningless Words

III.                Translation for Good English to Modern English

IV.                Nature of Modern English Writings and Writers

V.                  Modern English as seen and used in Politics

VI.                Correcting the Mistakes of Modern English

VII.              Improving Political Chaos by Improving Modern English

“A Hanging”

I.                    The Prison where He Lies

II.                  The Prisoner is Taken Out

III.                The Dog that Stopped the Convoy

IV.                The Narrator’s Realizations about the Prisoner

V.                  The Prisoner’s Hanging

VI.                The Life after the Death