Word: renderings
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...reason why a language devised by man should be inadequate to describe any of man's works. The difficulty was in admitting that the war had been made by men and was being continued ad infinitum by them." Fussell rejects Louis Simpson's theory that infantry soldiers so seldom render their experiences in language because "language seems to falsify physical life and to betray those who have experienced it absolutely--the dead." Fussell reduces the whole problem to this: it's not that war is indescribable, but that it's "nasty," and this contradicted the sensibilities of the times...
...Kabuki style, uses men even in most of the women's roles. Much of the show's inaction rests with a narrator aptly called "Reciter" (Mako). Kabuki notwithstanding, this ignores the spare and intensely dramatic injunction that Gertrude Stein gave Hemingway: "Don't describe; render...
Iolanthe Gilbert and Sullivan obviously had a good time satirizing the pomposity of the British House of Lords--the task inspired some of their cleverest lyrics and catchiest melodies. Iolanthe is one of the favorites of G&S aficonsdos--who vie with each other in attempts to render the tongue-twisting Nightmare song-- and the current G&S Society production makes it evident...
Fraser was using a tricky loophole in the constitution in his effort to bring down "by far the worst government Australia has ever had." The Senate, which has ten members for each of Australia's six states, cannot render a no-confidence vote. Only the directly elected House has that power, and it is controlled by Whitlam's Labor Party 65-to-62. But Fraser's hope is that when money runs out by the end of November because of the blocked budget, Whitlam will be forced to call a general election...
Douglas, 76, since last April, when he returned briefly to the court after his January stroke. But they had heard dismaying reports, notably that he had sat vacantly for 9% painfully silent minutes before rendering an oral decision at a hearing last month in Yakima, Wash., near his vacation retreat. Had he merely been considering the decision, or had the stroke decisively dimmed one of the brightest minds on the court? Now the Justices would render their own verdict...