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Three days elapsed before Adolf Hitler & Co. replied to Franklin Roosevelt. They did so in the same idiom as Ambassador Wilson's recall. Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff was ordered home from Washington to explain what the official Nazi news agency called the "eigenartig" ("singular") attitude...
Larry Clinton has taken the best parts, discarded the less valuable elements of "Reverie," and superimposed upon it the modern idiom of swing with superb effect. The result is the happiest since "Martha" took a new lease on life at the hands of swing and Connie Boswell. True, the subtle swaying rhythm has been sacrified to the accented rhythm of jazz and the chorale theme has been dropped; but the refreshing lack of a melodic sense of direction inherited from the original produces the most enhancing effect yet achieved in swing...
English translators have generally found the Greek tragic poets too much for them, have produced tortured versions in an idiom neither poetic nor colloquial and almost impossible to read. In the joyless task of selecting the best, Editors Oates and O'Neill unaccountably passed up two excellent modern translations: Sophocles' Oedipus the King by William Butler Yeats, Euripides' Alcestis by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Otherwise, their handsome and handy collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes...
...apologies made by these knights come as a thrilling dramatic contrast. They are delivered to a modern British audience in hackneyed modern idiom, with no trace of poetry. One speaker dwells upon their disinterestdness; another, on the constitutional necessity of subordinating Church to State; and a third, the theory that Becket virtually committed suicide while in unsound mind. They are meant to sound superficial, but none of them speaks nonsense, and hence the enigmatical complexity of the play is increased...
Before he went to Washington this week to take his oath amid a storm of liberal protest John Milton declared, aping the Hague idiom: "I ain't never been arrested. I ain't never been indicted. I ain't never been convicted...