Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program began with five piano pieces from as sorted opera by Arnold Schoenberg. Except for the final Op. 11 No. 3, all were in Schoenberg's innovating twelve-tone idiom...
...composers were colleagues at the University of Chicago. Both works begin with Schoenbergian flurries of pianistic cacophony; both depend for internal variety on the alternaton of different timbres, registers, and pianistic effects; and both are long--perhaps too long for the basically epigrammatic nature of the twelve-tone idiom. Without demeaning the compositions themselves, I must say that by the time Blackwood got to the Perkins Caprice, the startling newness and intriguing qualities of the style had worn off, and the concert came dangerously close to becoming tiresome...
Lowell composes much of the time in a startlingly direct, meaningful and contemporary idiom--so did Juvenal. Speaking of the ambitious man: "Your long list/ of honors breaks your neck." Of the emperor Tiberius: "Would you be/Tiberius' right hand, while he sits and suns/ himself at Capri, fed by eastern fags?" Of Cicero: "Yes, all in all, I like such pompous verse/ more than you force, immortal fifth Phillipic!" The passage on Hannibal moves exceptionally well, and is an obvious illustration of the epic note that reverberates hollowly through Juvenal's revulsion...
Latin v. Cyrillic. The target of Tito's wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...ominous for the rule of the old men, there are no longer any sacred, unquestionable aspects of the London School. "The demonstrations have changed the atmosphere completely," said one politics professor. "Everything is now on the agenda." An American student leaving the Union meeting put this in his own idiom: "Something's happening, and you don't know what it is, Mr. Jones...