Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several hundred miles apart. Another story, "Banker's Holiday," is a suspiciously whimsical piece for the Lampoon. I say 'suspiciously' because I was expecting some dirty little hoax at the conclusion, but the author maintains the fantasy through the ending, and, except for its length and occasional awkwardness of diction ("Tom began to laugh. 'Oh hell,' he choked.") it is a creditable bit of fantasy...
...radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the trade-and flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both clarity of diction and political candor. Samples...
...Here is another example. "Schwartz, however, in the preface to Genesis, allies himself with the '"morbid pedestrianism" of Wordsworth and Hardy', and a reactionary romanticism we think of as typical of the genre. He has, moreover, rehearsed a certain formalism just as Coleridge corrected Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...
...forget that he once considered a singing career rather than the law. His voice climbs up and down the baritone register with perfect confidence; he knows which way his voice should go on every phrase and he never stumbles over difficult word combinations. He has gotten over the tight, diction-teacher quality his voice had four years ago and he now speaks freely and easily...
...Wanted for radio series: one girl who speaks New Yorkese, has bad diction and careless enunciation...