Orin's pre-history at B.U.
untold sleepless nights with the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts, the academic PAC that watchdogged media-syntax and invited florid fish-lipped guys from the French Academy to come speak with trilled r’s on prescriptive preservation, and held marathon multireadings of e.g. Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language,’ and whose Avril-chaired Tactical Phalanx (MGM’s) was then (unsuccessfully, it turned out) court-fighting the new Gentle administration’s Title-II/G-public-funded-library-phaseout-fat-trimming initiative
Context
The fullest main-text portrait of the Militant Grammarians, buried inside Tavis's interminable wind-borne explanation of why Avril couldn't possibly have become Headmaster after JOI's death. Watchdogged media-syntax, French Academy guest speakers on prescriptive preservation, Orwell multireadings, and an Avril-chaired Tactical Phalanx suing the government over library closures — organized prescriptivism as political action committee.