Word: styles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of apartment buildings and small houses, designed in somewhat modern style, stands across the street from the back door of Moors Hall. The three-story and the combination two-story and three-story apartment houses at the corner of Linnaean and Rayment Streets will be the first occupied...
Another aid to Kiner's hitting is his movie camera and projector. Part of his homework is studying slow-motion pictures of himself at bat, looking for telltale hitches, lunges and hesitations. At the first sign of any break in his smooth-flowing style he goes to work on himself. Unlike most contemporary sluggers, Kiner digs into a wide-legged stance at the plate and takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into...
...luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play music so melodically simple that they think we are playing just for them...
...Putnam's translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...