Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less excellent is Thomas Hill as Willy. Mr. Hill is through and through a professional actor and his every word and motion suggest absorption in the role. Robert Evans as Biff lacks the polish of the two older actors and at times seemed to communicate his nervousness. No doubt future performances will give him more confidence in his part...
...dialogue that remain are largely Melville's, but they rattle unconvincingly in the mouths of hollowed-out characters. Writes the editor: "The sentence structure and punctuation have been simplified. In some instances, for the sake of clarity, rearrangement of the Moby Dick sequence of events was made. Words of infrequent use and unfamiliar terms were screened; questionable words were checked in Thorndike's The Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words...
Clam & Dromedary. Where screening fails, footnotes are added: the reader learns that a clam is "a shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...
...that of a chrysalis, maximum symbol of the vital nirvana which paves the way for the dazzling dawn of the butterfly, in its turn the symbol of the human soul." Any resemblance between Miltown and a chrysalis, doctors agreed, was confined to Dali's fancy. Still, the word chrysalis is derived from the Greek for gold, and no matter how untranquilizing Dali's work might be, as an attention-getter it was worth its weight in gold to Miltown...
...Russian press before they are released to the world. At the few parties he attends, Zorza is often backed into corners by officials and fellow newsmen who unabashedly pick his brain. The highest compliment to his skill comes from the Russian news agency Tass, which picks up his every word and relays it promptly to Moscow...