Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gothic villa of that town. They invited the reviewers of thirty college newspapers to serve as an audience because the same hero spends the first three minutes in college and thereby creates what Mr. Zanuck-presumably calls "a college angle." Mr. Zanuck's angle, to use a contemporary idiom, is none too sharp...
...Picture. Mr. Washington Goes to Town opens in jail. Prisoner Wallingford (F. E. Miller) is bandying hoary quips in end-man idiom with Prisoner Schenectady (Manta Moreland). Sample: "Pork chops is the fondest things I is of." Then Wallingford reads in the paper that Schenectady's uncle has died and left him a hotel. So Schenectady falls asleep. The rest of the picture is his riotous dream...
...Lukas Foss attributed that apparent similarity to the folk tunes, declared, with an eye on Broadway and Hollywood: "I want to write in a modern idiom which appeals...
Thus speaks Igor Strawinsky in his autobiography, about his opera-oratorio, "Oedipus Rex". Even a casual hearing confirms the fact that for his choral idiom Strawinsky has turned back to the principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...