Word: vernacular
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...director's function is primarily that of a highschool, dramatic coach, raised to a fabulous power of complexity. He tells $5,000-a-week stars where to stand and how to speak, screenwriters with millionaires' incomes how to rewrite the classics they are translating into the topical vernacular, photographers where to point cameras as big as limousines, art directors to fabricate rooms, streets or cities. If producers are top dogs of the cinema as an industry, directors are its top craftsmen. Their pay runs from $200 a week (for beginners) to what Columbia pays Capra for turning...
...Austria, by the Schroeder arguement, antagonism to Rome is deeply rooted. A "Los von Rom" ("Free from Rome") movement arose there 40-odd years ago. The Old Catholic Church, result of a schism in 1870 over papal infallibility, counts 400,000 European adherents. The Old Catholics employ the vernacular in the Mass, do not require celibacy of the clergy. Such a church, headed by Cardinal Innitzer, could win Hitler's blessing "by simply paying the price of separation from Rome...
...Bowling vernacular for a ball that curves too far across the alley, hits the head pin on the wrong side...
Berssenbrugge said in commenting on the choice of this play. "Their translation employees simple, vigorous, and direct vernacular, with never the suggestion of wordiness, and projects with ease and startling modernity the poetry and dramatic flavor of the play...
With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacular, its tender relation between Jody and his pet fawn, The Yearling is a simply written, picturesque story of boyhood that stands a good chance, when adults have finished with it, of finding a permanent place in adolescent libraries...