This clan has traveled from Russia through China, Brazil, and Oregon to make a home in the remote north, struggling to avoid modernization.

An English writer who became an American citizen in 1946, CHRISTOPHER ISUERWOOD has done scripts for film studios in hath countries and collaborated with W. H. Auden in the writing of three plays. He became a resident student of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, where he worked in making translations from the Sanskrit, and during these years he was in close touch with Aldous Huxley.

Professor of English at Northwestern University, BERGEN EVANS has made a reputation for himself as a linguistic expert, in his program, THE LAST WORD, and in his book, ADICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN USAGE,which he compiled with the assistance of his sister, Cornelia. Last month the ATLANTIC published Wilson Follett’s stricture on current American usage, “ Grammar Is Obsolete.”Mr. Evans takes the more optimistic view.