Word: vernacularized
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...when he was already established as a novelist in the new vernacular style, Mao Tun was one of Chiang Kai-shek's most effective pamphleteers. But after a quarrel with Chiang, he veered left. The slashing novels he then wrote (Midnight, Before Dawn) against foreign imperialists and thieving landlords made him the most widely read young man of letters of the day; their sharp critical edge persuaded many young intellectuals that Communism might be China's best hope...
...Washington vernacular, wrote New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould, Doerfer's "suggestion" fell "into the category of regulation by the raised eyebrow." By even entertaining the proposal, wrote Gould, "the networks have sat down for the first fitting of a straitjacket. They are confessing that they lack the gumption, economic resourcefulness and pride to lick their public-service problem individually, and that they need the weight of Uncle Sam to spell out specific and statistical criteria of civilized behavior...
Once when a young couple sought to have their infant baptized in the vernacular, Knox snorted: "The baby doesn't know English, and the Devil knows Latin." Despite the seemingly arrogant assurance of some of his publicized dicta (e.g., "All the identity discs in Heaven are marked R.C."), Knox went through ordeals of parched spirituality, notably in respect to prayer. He once wrote: "In the great bulk of my prayers, vocal and mental, all my life, I have not felt I was talking to God in his presence, but rather apostrophizing him in his absence...
Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...
...involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work of art. So far, the new sculpture seems only a vernacular, still in search of its first master user-and its first masterpiece...