Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...
...from the Lord Dunsany thriller about ruffians who steal the jeweled eye of an oriental idol only to meet the idol's gruesome, supernatural revenge. New Yorker Dello Joio, 42, known for the ballet On Stage! and the opera The Triumph of St. Joan, has mastered the stage idiom, molded his music in short, restless phrases. His score was notably effective, if not very modern...
...performance is true to the authors in all respects. The seventeen-piece orchestra, including banjo, accordion, and harmonium, gave each of Weill's melodies the rich, lively treatment it deserved. Howard Brown's entire musical direction seemed devoted to finding just the right expressions within Weill's jazz idiom and successfully capturing them...
...superficially resembles its prototype. It has a clanking, socked-out beat, a braying, honking saxophone, a belted vocal, and, too often, suggestive lyrics (spelled "leer-ics" by trade-sheet Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five of the first eight top tunes). Sample hits: Sincerely (McGuire Sisters; Coral), Tweedlee Dee (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury), Earth Angel (CrewCuts, Mercury). Even such stars as Jo Stafford (I Got a Sweetie; Columbia) and Eddie Fisher (Just One More Time; Victor) are showing some rock-'n'-roll...
...Clear Night." The slangy American idiom of the lyrics was bound to be mangled in translation. Surprisingly, the Spanish version came up with some good approximations: e.g., "I'm as corny as Kansas in August, I'm as normal as blueberry pie" came out "I'm as happy as a cat in January, as the butterfly in April . . ." The "Wonderful Guy" became "My Ideal Type." and "Some Enchanted Evening" was changed to "One Clear Night." Bloody Mary was still "The Girl I Love," but the punch line of the song, "Now ain't that too damn...