Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daytime workshops charged only a small general admission and produced some of the festival's best music. Here the musicians played in intimate atmosphere for attentive audiences and had enough time to work into their particular folk idiom...
...album's five successes are slick, mellifluous glances backward from a boy-girl breakup, "Most Likely You Go Your Way," and "One of Us Must Know." Like their ancestor from Opus 4, "It Ain't Me, Babe," these should yield the popular idiom a ripe harvest of epigrams...
America's leap into space has stimulated science and spawned new industries. It has also created a new idiom: space-speak. Many a scientist finds the growing, and sometimes incomprehensible jargon essential to the simplest conversation about new devices and techniques. But many a layman has become convinced that it is only one more irritating and unnecessary obstacle looming between him and a better grasp of scientific accomplishment. In a detailed analysis of space-speak for the magazine Science, University of Michigan Psychologist David McNeill suggests that there is something to be said for both points of view...
Kaempfert cultivated his taste for "foreign music" when he led a sextet in a U.S. Army officers' club in Bremerhaven. By cribbing from the jukebox, he learned all the popular American songs, soon developed a skill for arranging and composing foxtrotting tunes in the big-band idiom. Since his "music that does not disturb," as he calls it, is geared for U.S. audiences, he is virtually unknown in his own country. But Kaempfert does not care; last year he grossed $950,000. Strangers ought to make 'him a millionaire. "Maybe then," says his wife, "they will pay attention...
...Abrams, a Weaton professor, specializes in disjuction and fails to connect student here, surrenders occasionally to the soft blandishments of consecutive words but does it very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...