Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blamed the rules for what felt like the failure of active Sexual Liberation at Harvard. So we campaigned for their removal, hoping secretly that the traditions--the milk and cookies on Saturday nights, the midnight food raids on the kitchen, sedate jolly-ups, all part of the same inhibiting idiom--would go out with the rules. Because an all female Radcliffe--corridor doors promising no more than someone in curlers and bathroom slippers hunched under a hairdryer, or exam hysteria when girls lined the walls clut-ching their notes to their breasts like death row diariers--because a lime, peach...
...this was symbolized by the words TIME-and-LIFE-which became virtually a single word in the American idiom. Moreover, that double label will continue to exist: on the Time-Life Buildings in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo; on TIME-LIFE Books and Records, and other projects and products. Much of the experience and talent that constituted LIFE will be used and reflected by other Time Inc. enterprises, including TIME, which we hope will be joined by some of LIFE'S people. Although we are a very different magazine, we will...
...left the Bauhaus to set up his own practice in Berlin. The school had pioneered in what is now known as the "international style" of building-lean, elegant structures whose interior steel skeletons allowed architects to create airy and light façades of glass. Breuer took this cold idiom and domesticated it in his first building, a house in Wiesbaden. Flat-topped, generously windowed and raised on stilts above the ground, it used contrasted materials to give a feeling of warmth and porches to extend interior space outward...
RAFELSON'S MONOPOLY METAPHOR is too slick a formula. He has poached inconsistently on the terrain Arthur Miller familiarized: Shopworn sales talk has become the idiom of a society based on manipulation, commercial go-getting has been universalized as a private ethic, preservation of personal integrity means self-destruction. These are his cool assumption, the truisms of one who has seen-it-all. Sentimentially is a demon to him, so he lavishes heavy filmic methods in an effort to play it tough, and it is wholly at the expense of his material. He has twisted the form of his film...
...with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination that eludes most contemporary composers, nearly all of whom shy away from any contact with the popular idiom...