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Last week the Japs again used one of their advantages: they know more about Americans and American idiom than the U.S. can ever know about "the monkey men." In a broadcast beamed to the U.S., Tokyo quipped...
...this constituted the biggest revolution in U.S. popular musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine. Hillbilly music is the direct descendant of the Scottish, Irish and English ballads that were brought to North America by the earliest white settlers. Preserved...
...Allied command post, General Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke in American idiom...
...important that colleges in 32 states and the District of Columbia have contributed at least one graduate to our staffs-for having so many different academic backgrounds helps us tell our national news in the round-and helps us report our state news to the nation with the true idiom, flavor and perspective...
...what Student Lucius Beebe, who spent a year at Yale, called "a unique ability for translating the obscure refine ments of literature into an idiom which the undergraduate mind could readily grasp." Student Sinclair Lewis, '07, called him the one college teacher of his generation able to "inoculate students . . . with his own passion for the secret joys of good literature," a man who changed the university into a "friendly concourse of human beings interested in learning...