Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase in Watson's statement is that he has banned participation with teams that "plan to use freshmen." Boston University's athletic administration has adopted a policy which permits participation of freshmen, but the Terriers are presently not planning to use them...
...Japanese friends and I were surprised and amused by your translation of Ten-chan, the nickname of the young Japanese for their Emperor, as "Heavenly Boy." The phrase is impossible to translate, however, so your version is perhaps understandable. Ten is a shortened form of tenno heika, which the Japanese use when referring to their Emperor. Literally, ten means "heaven," no means "king," and heika means "his majesty." But the phrase Ten-chan is idiomatic. When I asked one friend how he would render it into English, he unhesitatingly replied...
...next several years worked to stabilize the buckling planes and shallow space in such magnificent canvases as After the Ball (18) and Still Life with Liqueur Bottle (19). Braque, unable to ignore the challenge of Demoiselles, did likewise. By 1911 they were working together, joined, in Braque's phrase, like mountaineers on a rope...
...rather, a thin white knitting needle-to start the Carmen overture. His instructions to the orchestra were brief and to the point: "Trumpets, didn't you notice I slowed down?" Politely but firmly he told an overeager tenor: "Please don't cut off the baritone in mid-phrase." He remained unperturbed when a voice from backstage implored: "Wait, Julius, wait. Don José's costume has just fallen apart." The singer finally appeared onstage clutching uncertainly at his trousers. "Jesus Christ, Julius," he wailed, "I'm losing my pants and I've got nothing...
...remember being really bored by a play on the evening of my tenth birthday," Max Beerbohm once wrote. How sad that he would have been equally bored by The Incomparable Max, the play that owes its title to Bernard Shaw's apt and durable phrase. Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee also came to praise Sir Max, but they ended up burying...