Word: dictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie to draw water to wash baccra foot. Sun come up to tell woman to tie her head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full of sun and bright colors and the narrator's simple diction makes the abundant sense-imagery all the more vivid: So I go down into that gully to make water, with the smell of cinnamon in the air and red flowers blooming and bursting before my eye. Lowe's fantastic prose is a pleasure to read...
...which part of a chapter in his unpublished novel This Passing Night is based. The story's two characters come alive, and Miller gives the death of a cheap hoodlum dignity and poignance that might easily have seemed unwarranted, but do not. At the beginning of the story his diction and sentence structure set a tone with which occasional word choices clash, but after the first two paragraphs his control does not slip. I look forward to reading the novel, which will counterpoint stories of the gangs with others about a group of New York children who go to college...
...voice is full-bodied and rich, the diction faultless, the rhythm and phrasing reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. To a casual record store browser it might signify the most exciting new popular singing talent to come along in years. But the voice is not new. It belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
...weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals sternly debated the question of whether Cinemactress Kim Novak can dance on the head of a pin. Reviewing her latest movie, Strangers When We Meet, Critic Stanley Kauffmann announced in the New Republic that Kim's diction struck him as an "unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same...
...opening Twelfth Night was greeted with morning-after queasiness by the critics: Illyria became a British seaside resort circa 1830, and most of the cast appeared to be on shore leave from H.M.S. Pinafore, including tremolo-prone Katharine Hepburn, an exponent of the Bryn Mawr school of Shakespearean diction. The Connecticut Stratfordians followed up with a becalmed Tempest. Expected later with some foreboding: Movie Actor Robert Ryan's Antony to Katharine Hepburn's Cleopatra...