Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to imagine a young architect setting out to imitate Johnson. He is an architect of sensibility, not polemics, and his work has no discernible core of aesthetic theory. It is all taste, exemplary in its detailing and finesse of decision. Though he was trained in the strict, functionalist idiom of Mies and Gropius, Johnson believes such purism "is winding up its days." "Structural honesty," he declared in 1961, "seems to me one of the great bugaboos that we should free ourselves from very quickly...
...major contribution was giving a musical outlet to the down-home lyrics of the Southern backwoods singers. Rodgers' twelve bar structures seemed to fit perfectly the region's idiom. Early in Rodgers' very short career (he recorded from 1927 until he died of tuberculosis in 1933) he was able to blend the artifacts of everyday life with religious themes that made the most mundane chore an act of God. He was one of the first to understand the gulf between the grand style of Southern tradition and the dull realities of Southern living. You can still see the conflict...
...reflects a world in transition. As the horizon of human experience expands, so does the need for fresh words and expressions. Journalists, as interpreters of the new and unusual, have a vital role to play in this process. At TIME, particularly, correspondents and writers constantly seek to enrich the idiom, and TIME's use of words has long been one of the magazine's most vivid characteristics...
...small minority of radicals is increasingly communicating its politics in the most ancient idiom: violence. In a 15-month period ending last April, there were 4,330 bombings across the U.S. They killed at least 40 persons and injured 384. Right-wing extremists and racists account for some of the destruction. Personal grudges are also involved in many minor bombings. Only two persons have been killed in campus explosions, but the few political radicals who are "into violence" are now practicing it almost routinely-and with increasing expertise-as a necessary instrument of revolution...
...brief trip to Ireland, where the roles of interviewer and interviewee were sometimes reversed. Born in England, Beardwood cut his teeth as a reporter for the Offaly Chronicle in Birr, County Offaly, and so was in perfect position to guide Stein through the intricacies of Irish politics, money and idiom- from RUC (for Royal Ulster Constabulary) to "Let's have a jar and a crack" (a drink and a talk...