Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage of classical mood and modern idiom at the heart of his work has not proved easy for Gregory: his lifetime output numbers fewer than 100 poems, none of them long. But at its best, the combination demonstrates consuming intelligence and sinewy strength. In his own phrase, his art can be "fire that flames upon an iron tree," and his poems are often
...Year." Bonwit's Vice President William E. Humphreys, 48, disappointed that he did not get the job, resigned a day after the announcement. Generally, however, the trade applauded Mildred Custin's promotion: in the idiom of fashion, her career has been simply divine. Born in New Hampshire, she went to Simmons College in Boston, was later hired by Boston's now defunct R. H. White Co. She then joined John Wanamaker, Inc. and rose to become its Philadelphia store's first woman vice president. Picked as Bonwit Teller of Philadelphia's president...
...Swingle Singers' musical idiom is onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
...last, the fog of traditionalism has begun to lift over London, and the artistic void has been filled by a platoon of young painters whose cool, bold work, while clearly influenced by U.S. pop art, is rooted in a distinctively English idiom that may well help Britannia rule a new wave. At the 1963 Paris Biennale, where French art bored even the French for a change, two of the young Londoners, Allen Jones and David Hockney, took the top prizes for painting and graphics from among 500 international entrants. Predicts Robertson: "The next great concentration of painters-after New York...
...PLACE, by William Brammer. Those who wonder if the energies of our ear-pulling President have been exaggerated in the press should turn to this roman a clef about Johnson. Ex-Aide Brammer has caught the voice, the idiom, the excesses, but most of all the protean vigor of the President...