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1) I wonder if, by way of similar extraordinary facts that I cannot predict, I may feel more at home in Europe than on my deeply loved stretches of land in the United States.  (2) I sometimes wish that photography were solely the domain of artists who photograph rather than a tool so commonly used for the reproduction of artworks.  (3) Reproduction fatally weakens the force of art, reducing its presence to mere information and thus rendering it accessible in way that makes it easy to miss the point of view.  (4) Since the eighteenth century ,most of our great moralists have at one time or another turned their attention to the language ,reflecting the conviction that the mastery of polite prose is a moral accomplishment .  (5) Obviously, we are not bound to use the language just as it was used a hundred years ago, but neither is it in our interest to change the language willy-nilly.  (6) Nevertheless, I would not want to claim that there are no improprieties worth bothering about.  (7) Beyond the revision of traditional categories, new social conditions call for attention to aspects of language to which early grammarians were indifferent.  (8) In ordinary private conversation, the background of information we have in common is usually rich enough to enable us to fill in what is intended.  (9) Just as attention to rules of written usage helps us to read intelligently, so an awareness of abuse of “you know” in public forums makes us better listeners.  (11) Only when all of America could see, on the nightly newscasts, the civil disobedience occurring in places like Seima and Montgomery did the issue of civil rights become a national concern rather than a series of isolated local events.  (12) “Now …this ”is a phrase commonly used on television newscasts to indicate that what one has just heard or seen has no relevance to what one is about to hear or see or possibly to anything one is ever likely to hear or see.  (14) Huxley realized that the government need