Word: dictional
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...with considerable hauteur, Eliot professed himself an Anglo-Catholic, a royalist and a classicist, and the chaplet of lyrics (Ash Wednesday) which celebrated his conversion remains the most richly beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive...
...this crucial stage, however, our good neighbors from the Maine wilderness masterfully took charge of proceedings. Perhips if they had only sung off pitch, weakly, colorlessly, or with poor diction, the effect would not have been so bad. But when all these are coupled with a poorly selected group (consisted of nothing but Josquin des Pres, Hassler, Lotti, and Leisring) and an acrobatic figure on the conductor's stand, the limit has been surpassed...
Sample "Cultural Arts" course required of air hostesses: "C.A. 69. Practical esthetics. A course for young women who expect to do office work . . . emphasizing the importance of personal grooming, correct speech (voice and diction), and also flower arrangement as an integral part of the office setting...
...stories of an amorous pirate named Estramudo. A mountebank comes by, warms to the lady, tries to win her favor by claiming to be Estramudo. (Actually, her own husband is.) These and a lot of other old-fashioned absurdities of plot are blown up with old-fashioned extravagances of diction. Now & then a flash of wit serves for punctuation...
...Summer School Office also announces that History 820b, Philosophy 34d, and Philosophy 814a, will not be given this session. A special course in diction and voice training is to be given, however, although it will not be counted for course credit...