Word: idiom
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...will become the folk music of America--will be decided by time alone, but it is certain that the impression which the various forms of jazz have made on modern art-music will perpetuate its distinctive rhythmic and melodic types as important parts of the serious musical idiom of our time...
Hindemith has developed an idiom which he has perfectly in his grasp. He has not deserted the old and tried elements of tonality and traditional counterpoint; he has rather employed them as the foundations of a clearly successful and effective idiom. He is one of the most vital and influential figures in contemporary music and it is to be hoped that he will continue to make his contact with America a personal as well as musical one. In view of his treatment at the hands of the present regime in Germany, and his prolonged visits to this country, there...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
...against Stackpole, which claimed-among other things-that Hitler's Battle now belongs to the public domain. Last week a Federal judge in Manhattan denied the injunction. Both publishers meanwhile battled against time, with the result that both translations are hurried, occasionally inaccurate, always heavy and Germanic in idiom. The Stackpole version is somewhat easier reading, the Reynal & Hitchcock job has the advantage of being annotated. Arrows and daggers handily mark the sections expurgated from the English edition...
...writes about four hours a day, in terms of episodes, never halting in the emotional crises, but never going into one just before lunch. Declaring she would rather be an "American writer than anything else," she is gradually unlearning the habit of thinking in Chinese idiom. Her next book (finished in fact before The Patriot) will be a sequel to her weakest novel, This Proud Heart, her first with a U. S. setting. She says she will never again live in China, may visit it when she knows for certain "what shape it will assume...