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The book's 2,000-odd entries are alphabetized, but that is about the only concession to order. Otherwise, Bernstein consulted only the rules defining "clarity, precision and logical presentation"-plus the generally reliable canons of his own taste. This makes for a journey past the shoals and promontories...
Trouble in Paradise represents a movie trend in the early thirties devoted to making the cinema a truly international art, despite the language barrier imposed by sound. The action takes place in France and Italy with much of the native language left untranslated. Lubitsch was a German director who had...
*Dorothy L. Sayers, Geoffrey L. Bickersteth and Laurence Binyon have severally translated La Commedia into rhyming tercets, and translated it amazingly well. John D. Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader...
George Balanchine, L.H.D., choreographer. Not least of his gifts is the first generation of American-born performers of ballet who mirror his restless austerity of discipline, his untrammeled precision of technique.
Despite a lifelong devotion to language, Funk had no use for stylistic precision. "Let's throw the old textbooks out the window," he once wrote, "along with the words correct and incorrect, because there's really no such thing as grammar, but only an ever-changing language pattern...