Word: idiom
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...orchestral style of the period, and orchestrated Hallelujah with the clack of a stock ticker as its motif. The narration of the film, the second in a Project 20 trilogy (first: The Great War; third: The Story of the Thirties), is redolent with the decade's slangy idiom, from "Let's get blotto" to "Nerts." Better yet, not only for its authentic ring but for its unforeseen link to the unsummonable past, the idiom is spoken in the friendly, adenoidal singsong of Comedian Fred Allen, who died last March soon after finishing...
...Rilke Songs, by Frederic Rzewski, which followed, are written in a twelve-tone idiom of particular expressivity. They are for soprano with piano accompaniment, and are based upon two poems from the Book of Hours. Rzewski's music, although not easily accessible, is definitely to be reckoned with. In the first song particularly, there were moments of real beauty...
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...