Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fallen Idol," an English production based on a short story by Graham Greone, was chosen as England's best film of 1948, and has been collecting rave reviews here. Most of the praise is deserved. The photography is subtle and brilliant, a fresh realistic idiom for the moviegoer lulled by the stylized American technique, that, together with masterful directing, (by Carol Reed, director of Odd Man Out), and superb acting, raise a weaker plot to excellent drama...
...program ranges from Bach to Handel to the barbershop idiom. To end the concert, both glee clubs take the stage for a joint medley. Otherwise the clubs will be featured separately with individual programs, a large part of which will be carried by soloists and small groups...
...reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they...
...were commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation to write an American music drama, you would start looking for a play with intense dramatic interest. You would also do well to choose something set in a locale with a musical idiom...
...never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid one-testicled theories" of the American humanists, or sports, with grim intent, through an embarrassing parody called The Love Song of J. Freddie Petticoat by B. S. Idiom...