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...night or two each week "to beat about the scene." But he thinks that for all its joy, jazz is surrounded by so much sadness that "to just say you love jazz is wrong." One of the incidental benefits of jazz has always been to enrich the American idiom. A fairly recent jazz expression, used in this week's cover story, is "bag," meaning school, camp or category. In the occasionally special journalistic idiom we speak at work here at TIME, the expression may prove useful; we may yet end up referring to what is going...
...Secretary Is Not a Toy (Une Secrétaire N'Est Pas une Poupée), he was confronted with this one: "Her pad is to write in and not to spend the night in." Parisians could be expected to understand the sentiment but not the beat idiom. Castans settled for a weak substitute: in translation, "Her place is at the office and not at the Lido...
...mystery is the most difficult to bear. This dualistic concept gives his music a savage, struggling complexity, in which great orchestral thunder dies under the thumb of fragmentary jazz melodies, then resolves itself in intricate contrapuntal passages for both chorus and orchestra. But Bernstein does not settle on any idiom long enough to perfect it. Because his concentration span is short to the point of dilettantism, he achieves with all his battalions of singers and musicians only the affectation of beauty...
...stiff examination for career Foreign Office jobs each year (starting salary: $2,220); only 30 to 40 are chosen. Moreover, an Oxbridge education today is usually a badge of merit, not of privilege, and endows its products with an acute sense of history as well as the subtle, precise idiom that makes diplomatic dispatches to the British Foreign Office a model of effective communication...
...with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn't this flesh, this heavy carcass of meat, dissolve?" The play is done in Italian in an almost corner-of-the-mouth modern idiom, with the gravediggers speaking in hoodsy Neapolitan accents and Hamlet's pentametric arias flatted with words like "procrastination" and "bureaucracy...