Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied command post, General Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke in American idiom...
...important that colleges in 32 states and the District of Columbia have contributed at least one graduate to our staffs-for having so many different academic backgrounds helps us tell our national news in the round-and helps us report our state news to the nation with the true idiom, flavor and perspective...
...what Student Lucius Beebe, who spent a year at Yale, called "a unique ability for translating the obscure refine ments of literature into an idiom which the undergraduate mind could readily grasp." Student Sinclair Lewis, '07, called him the one college teacher of his generation able to "inoculate students . . . with his own passion for the secret joys of good literature," a man who changed the university into a "friendly concourse of human beings interested in learning...
Stravinsky's arrangement of a suite by Pergolesi, by contrast retained only the form and melody of the original, progressively adding more and more idiom to each of the eight dances. There was, however, within the movements, considerable alternation between the two styles, the softer and slower passages being nearly pure Porgolesi, the louder and faster passages principally Stravinsky. There were the typical Stravinsky cross-rhythms, two against three, throbbing dissonances in the trombone and basses, mechanically repeated figures for pizzicato strings, and, at the end, circus-style trombone "smears" for satirical effect...
Between Tibetan and other languages-except related Burmese, Chinese, Tai-there is a great and scholar-swallowing gulf. The grammar is exotic plus, the spelling has only the loosest association with the pronunciation (brgyad means eight, is pronounced jay), the literature is virtually unrelated to the contemporary idiom. Through the centuries the Tibetans under their Lamas* have adapted their language very slowly, although they have taken over some words like airplane (the Germans attempted the first test flight across the country) and electric light (Lhasa has a small power plant...