An Advisory Board to Be Wary Of

By ROBERT SCHOLES

A few years after I got back from fighting the Chinese in the Korean War, my sister-in-law was in college, studying Russian, the language of our other great enemy in those days. I thought then, as I think now, that you need to know how a language is used in its own cultural setting in order to master it. So I trekked down to a dingy building in lower Manhattan one day and ordered...

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