Word: idiom
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...more in the film than act; according to Hammer, they were even responsible for writing the actual dialogue. “People are an extension of a place for me, so the language had to come from them,” Hammer said. Though he knew the local idiom, Hammer chose to write only structural dialogue and nailed down the actual script in a three-month-long rehearsal period with the actors. “We talked about each scene,” Hammer said. “I would ask them, ‘Do you believe this...
...inherently interdisciplinary and transnational.To rebuke Hist and Lit too severely would be unfair, however. The program is largely dependent upon departmental course offerings, and “transnationalism” as a concept has not been adequately defined. In the words of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, “No idiom has yet emerged to capture the collective interests of many groups in translocal solidarities, cross-border mobilizations, and postnational identities.” Ethnic or postcolonial studies—the two closest versions available today—examine only partially the variety of ways in which humans interact in time...
...socialist at 40 has no head.” So (apocryphally?) spoke the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, a man with witticisms and grandfatherly maxims in no short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties...
...passing: composing a symphony.Perhaps we can read in Said’s apparition a gloss to the collection’s title: in Said’s real posthumously published work “On Late Style,” he writes about artists whose work acquires a new idiom near the end of their lives, contending that “late-style Beethoven, remorselessly alienated and obscure, becomes the prototypical modern aesthetic form.”Are Gordimer’s “Beethoven” stories, in their formal and thematic abrasiveness, perhaps working towards such...
...from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L'Indochine, an academy set up in Hanoi in 1925 by a classmate of Henri Matisse. There, the idiom was Western classical - with a dash of impressionism thrown in for modern élan. Even today, Vietnamese students at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, as the French-founded school is now known, spend an entire year sketching nude models, a rigorous exercise that has been abandoned at many Western...