Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seldman Rodman is a poet interested in painting who was active politically during the '30's editing a magazine which attempted to explore American alternatives to Marxism. Mr. Rodman's concern for the man in the street later led him to try to reconcile folk poetry and the modern idiom in a series of anthologies of poetry. More recently he has been working on the problem of modern painting's failure to communicate to the mass audience. Rodman's thesis as it has developed in his books on art is that there has been too great an interest...
...idiom of humor is utterly different from the American; the situation is so utterly crazy that much of the picture's charm is not in its guffaws but in its continuity; the screech of the language seems so utterly preposterous to the untrained ear that we suspect these Italians may be pulling a much bigger joke than we know. According to Casablanca gossip, both of the principals, Maria Fiore and Vincenzo Musolino, are acting professionally for the first time. If so, they could have fooled us. Their humor is broad and foreign, but not obscure...
...borrow the book's idiom, The Straight and Narrow Path is the tale of a great haroosh*in the village of Patrickstown, and it may be said without fear of successful contradiction that neither Barry Fitzgerald nor Spencer Tracy nor Bing Crosby nor John Wayne will bid for the role of the priest, if the book, by some unlikely chance, is made into a film...
...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...
...like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...