Word: dictional
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...honored at last in the city from which her pioneering father, Dr. Sigmund Freud, fled 34 years ago. Other speakers insisted that the tribute was hers alone, for her work in child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud felt otherwise. "Academic honors are not usually hereditary," she said in the dry, careful diction she uses with her youthful patients, "but I feel that herewith I inherit my father's part...
...fine English translation of the libretto did not help Elisabeth Phinney as Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...
...both choirs was strong and round. The composition itself has a hint of the genius found in the famous 40-part motet Spem in alium. By the last work of the evening. Thomas Morley's Service for the Burial of the Dead, the singers were well warmed up. Their diction was excellent and the large intervals between soprano and bass--which put a premium on faithful pitch--were negotiated readily. The beautiful ending with an inverted pedal point was almost ruined by some muddy lower parts, but the total effect was of great majesty and quietude...
...civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results." Eliot here is making a false analogy between traffic jams and dynamoes, and complications of diction, tone, syntax, and meaning in poetry. He is saying that obscurity and complexity are as necessary to the modern poet as blank verse was to Milton simply because they have certain ressemblances to the surface qualities of modern life. Yeat's late poetry is a good example of the implausibility...
...write in a poem, "Shakespeare had at his disposal a total of 60,000 words. But the genius-poet of the Future shall possess in every moment 150,000,000,000." Mayakovsky had the vision of the future genius-poet but was stuck with Shakespeare's used-up diction...