![]() ![]() ![]() It was just a rule, much like “the gerund follows the possessive” or “ infinitives must never be split.” We were probably no more or less embittered by the requirement for rote retention of rules than by the soul-crushing memorization of battle plans for the Civil War. That occasion would have to wait for more than two decades.Īt about the same time as Kennedy’s speech, we were being taught in junior high that correct grammar required us to phrase a question to the entire class as follows: “Does everyone have his book?” even though the class contained both boys and girls. There was no mention of catapulting a woman into space. Kennedy declared that “We will put a man on the moon and bring him safely back to earth by the end of this decade.” In 1961, just months into his young presidency, John F. ![]()
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