Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Time to Dance" is composed like a symphony, with three movements; the themes of each movement are separate, and each movement is self-contained. The first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions. Dr. Johnson's strictures on this kind of poetic diction appear in his discussion of Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis," and though they...
...contrast to the words they sang. Perhaps this scheme was too subtle for the literal-minded. The music was never unpleasant, but for 50 minutes it ambled along like a monotonous introduction to something which never began. Unfortunately for the libretto, the Pasha was played by Lawrence Tibbett whose diction is so clear that the audience understood every word he sang. And fortunately for John Laurence Seymour a Manhattan audience will applaud any new opera. For the occasion the delighted composer had been granted leave of absence from the California State Junior College where he teaches dramatics. His curtain calls...
...seldom, if ever, hears over the air. I refer to the gentleman who delivered Winston Churchill's speech and later announced the engagement & wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina. I trust it will please you to let us hear more & more from one whose diction & voice are music...
...sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced in many a year...
...will men with a definite defect in their speech be detected and a cure suggested, but a larger percentage of the men, while having no rest obstacle to satisfactory utterance, may be found inept in composing their thoughts orally. If this same percentage is also unsatisfactory in clarify of diction. It may be inferred that there is something significantly lacking in the present educational process