Word: secreto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From war, science and industry he found hundreds of new words to define. There was guided missile (proyectil dirigido), G-man (agente secreto federal), high-fidelity (alta fidelidad), and 3-D (pelicula cinematográfica tridimensional). He had to translate babbittry (concepto de la moral y las costumbres de la clase media), flying saucer (platillo volador o volante), Hoosier (natural o habitante del estado de Indiana), and water wagon (sin tomar bebidas alcohólicas). Even some old words caused trouble. In no bilingual dictionary, for instance, could Williams find a definition of solitary confinement; he came across...
Other pieces on the program will be "Por un Amor," two choruses from "II Matrimonio Secreto, choruses from "The Beggar's Opera," and a Czech folk song, "Magdlein im Walde." College songs, as usual, will wind things...