Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage mobs who jabber and shriek. Music caterwauls off stage. Puffed-up actors recite puffed-up dialogue. Around a table covered with brass pitchers and pottery the King and his counsellors gather, looking like Armenians...
...machine's possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man's voice to a woman's or a child's. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine...
...Dainty Diction...
...crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse of how England cares for its underprivileged youth. Most exciting shot: little Lord Jeff falling from the yardarm of a facsimile mast into...
...classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity of the all-important diction being further obscured by the muffling of the words behind a heavy curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with creditable smoothness, and the costumes by Alfonso Ossorio '38 and the lighting by George Wells contributed to the professional atmosphere of the production. All credit should be given...