Word: dictional
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...behest of the French Government when Beatrice Sendler, president of the Fontainebleau alumni association, thought of forming a Fontainebleau piano class. A friend, John Frothingham, persuaded his old school, St. George's in Newport, to lend its buildings. For piano classes with M. and Mme Casadesus, and French diction under Mme Marthe Pillois (widow of a minor French composer), the transplanted Fontainebleau conservatory signed up 25 students, most of them Fontainebleau alumni. Two talented newcomers were Dominican nuns, Sister Ignatia and Sister M. Louisita...
...practical skill a college cab impart. Hence President Conant's avowal that everywhere "we hear complaints of the inability of the average Harvard graduate to write, either correctly of fluently," is not be silently shelved. As the "Times" stated recently, new influences of everyday life--the realistic but unrefined diction of the streets, the movies, the radio--have dulled American appreciation of good English. Harvard is facing the problem together with the rest of the country and its schools...
Best liked, hardest to locate were neutral dictions without noticeable peculiarities-what the investigators called "generalized American speech." The listeners liked best a speaker (not Pennsylvania Dutch) from Lancaster, Pa., voted second place to one from Syracuse, N. Y.-both good examples of neutral, generalized diction. A speaker from Boston won third choice. But though he gave himself away by saying "grahss" (grass), "ahsk" (ask) and "look heah," few listeners placed him correctly...
Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to snuff, he joined a course at Columbia, but he had to give it up. Too much homework...
Ernest Bloch: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting, with Joseph Szigeti; Columbia: 8 sides). Not for many years has 59-year-old musical Zionist Bloch wailed so fine a rhapsody. Violinist Szigeti gives his Oriental oratory superb diction...