Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me to add that I have always admired TIME's diction, especially the use of epithets which help to picture people for us. Maybe it is a coincidence, maybe it is due to a background of classical training in your editors: the language of this most modern of magazines often reminds me of Homer...
...voice was familiar, the argument reasonable, the diction clear. The people at their radios listened to the President. But there seemed to be something in the air that blurred the reception...
...Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...
...Post Office called the songbook "lewd and obscene," even though it had been reviewed by the military. Post Exchanges continued to sell it. Men in service, never noted for dainty diction, continued to sing of disrespect and dirt as they went about their dirty business: We had a major and his name was Tack...
...with considerable hauteur, Eliot professed himself an Anglo-Catholic, a royalist and a classicist, and the chaplet of lyrics (Ash Wednesday) which celebrated his conversion remains the most richly beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive...