Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frequency with which life prefigures art. Joyce's brief and platonic affair with a young Swiss woman, Martha Fleischmann, is replayed in some detail in the Bloom-Gerty McDowell episode in Ulysses. The few letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...
...laggard U.S., he argued, does not appreciate the fact that "because of the obsolescence of the power politics of the 19th century and the early 20th, the idiom of American diplomacy today often sounds as if it belonged to the horse-and-buggy age." The President and Secretary of State "have not taken truly into account the cataclysmic consequences of the collapse of empires," continued Lippmann with a rococo flourish. "We can coexist peaceably only if we forgo the Messianic megalomania which is the Manila madness...
Violence has become the idiom of the times. The spy novel, once devoted to the exploitation of intrigue and suspense, is more and more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...
...reading audience wants, to bypass the senses. Maybe he appeals to them too often. We develop such faith in his experience -- such confidence in his brilliantly modulated rhetoric -- that we are willing to accept almost any statement as poetically valid, even passages where epigram takes the place of idiom, and ideology assumes the role of experience...
...late Beethoven quartets is one of scope. These works stretch the expressive potential of the string quartet to the limit. While they are conceived on a scale comparable to that of any of his major orchestral works, they face the tremendous problem of developing within the bounds of an idiom whose orchestrational possibilities are very limited. As a result, Beethoven sometimes demands more of the string quartet than can be done with the instruments at hand. His Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, however, carefully skirts any such fault. Ideally played, it demonstrates true virtuoso quartet playing, combining a great...