Word: languageã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...committee’s report adopted strong language??similar to that employed by PSLM’s living wage campaign—criticizing labor practices on campus...
...treatment of standard theater elements—certainly of language??Wellman can be rather vampirish himself. He takes an old word or phrase, drains it dry and then raises it from the dust transformed. Characters in Dracula contort words in eerily brilliant ways, which only grow eerier as they become more possessed (“there is hair growing into my head,” sings one of the particularly mad). When they can’t find the words to describe the alien situations they come upon, they are forced to invent their...
...Bydlo (Oxen)” movement, as well as the simple lyricism of the opening “Promenade” theme and later in the “Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua” (“With the Dead in a Dead Language??). The only real disappointment came with “Il Vecchio Castello” (“The Old Castle”). The simple, lilting 6/8 trochaic rhythm was stretched out with too much rubato, completely obliterating the evocations of Medieval troubadours and trouvères. Despite this flaw, Kissin still managed...