Show I 1 URGES CALLING SPADE A SPADE critic sees opportunity for Debi debunking inkin Sp speech eccli american speech needs debunking in the opinion of frank G tompkins professor of english at the colleges of the city of detroit professor tompkins deplores the tendency to use big names for little things as the result of our love of the elegant high sounding 0 word to express the commonplace work a day fact and our aversion to calling a spade a spade too often he believes americans refuse to recognize cheap and ugly things as cheap and ugly or even commonplace instead we attempt to fool ourselves and others by dressing them up in grand names consider the glittering offices we ass assume ume in our lodges professor tompkins Tomp hins points out tit titles les like grand exalted potentate of the honorable and benevolent order of so and so or tier her most imperial majesty lUa jesty the lady queen of the hive what delusions of grandeur the resounding titles must bring while one wears the purple velveteen robe and the gold ol braided hat that go with them but once out in the cold street what a letdown let down to face the world as plain alag maggie le smith or john brown the same love of title shows it oil self in the colonels and majors who earned their rank without leaving their desks the professors of phrenology and astrology medicine show doctors barber colleges and business universities my imy neighbor does not take tahe roomers but tor for years she has had paying guests they look like roomers just the same down the street Is an obesity salon and farther on a reducing neither one is a salon or a Is it less humiliating to wear dentures than false teeth does an educator teach better than a teacher are deferred payments easier than buying on time why should we delude ourselves with words reality Is there just the same detroit news |