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...poet's famed work, combining amatory advice with a rake's recollections, scandalized Emperor Augustus when it first appeared about 1 B.C. Never had the Loves read as well in English as in the new translation by Rolfe Humphries, longtime Latin teacher and poet, who combines current lingo and idiom with a keen sense for the classic, a roguish twinkle with catholic taste. For a review, see BOOKS, Latin Without Tears...
Friendly Persuasion (Anthony Perkins; Epic). A movie tune with lyrics in Quaker lingo ("Thee is mine . . . thee pleasures me") that make the canny Quakers look pretty silly. It has a mighty purty tune, by that old Quaker from Russia, Dimitri Tiomkin...
...once told an interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor, and brought...
...British army lingo of the Far East, "I-Wallah" means intelligence officer. He keeps the books of combat and, as far as possible, tries to make sense of the gruesome gibberish...
...Liberation Day, in the Communist lingo of East Berlin-and the town was tricked up with solemn-sloganed streamers. "Forward to Peace, Socialism and Understanding Between Peoples" fluttered from the Institute for Planned Economy. "Forward, Not to the Atom Bomb, But to Peace" waved in the breeze over Stalin Allee.* Few stopped to read. Small boys careered through the streets on their bicycles. Crowds surged along the sidewalks searching for vantage points. Any minute the "Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart...