Word: vernacularized
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...Catholic Church had good and rational reasons for adopting a vernacular Mass, a popularly intelligible and flexible service far more accessible than the rumbling, mysterious Latin that sometimes seemed more like glossolalia on the lips of a hurried priest. But many traditionalists who understood the Latin Mass regarded its translation as equivalent to redesigning Chartres or Notre Dame along the lines of a functional Manhattan office building. The Latin version, with a patina of centuries, had a majestic ritual quality that the vernacular often turns into a godforsaken flatness...
Manhattan's "Needle Park"-junkie vernacular for the area around Broadway and 72nd Street. Finally, Helen is reduced to turning Bobby over to the cops. But when he is sprung from jail, she is there waiting...
...simply cannot go on taking a bath for those guys," he says. "Only four or five of them are writing for the people. Like Lenny Bernstein. I think West Side Story is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century because it combines the classics with the vernacular." Munves particularly mourns the disappearance of good old-fashioned melody. When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only partly. "The thing with music is that man has to see his own image in it," he says. "And man's image...
Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...most capitals of Asia, where the long view prevails, Laos is regarded as a brief episode in a long, drawn-out struggle, in which the U.S. is, in the G.I. vernacular, "short" and getting shorter all the time. Over the past year or two, in fact, a new, calmer view of the whole Indochina war has spread through Asia, in part the result of a reassessment in the light of U.S. withdrawal. Many sophisticated Asians, including the leaders of some of the nations once regarded as dominoes, are now privately convinced that Hanoi will prevail, and have come...