Word: idiom
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...Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment...
...Miro paints gaily-colored fantasies, filled with cavorting, infectiously-jovial organisms, figures in a symbolism which is both intensely personal and completely charming. As a young man, Miro was influenced by the Dadaists, and he has been frequently accepted as a surrealist, although the simplicity and individuality of his idiom far transcends surrealism...
...training program of the Chinese divisions, gave Ho full marks for cooperation and knowledge of his job. "Ho's right on the ball," said General McClure this week, clasping him around the shoulders in a gesture more understandable to Chinese-speaking Ho than McClure's American idiom...
...Picasso to the U.S. public-Manhattan's Armory Show in 1913 -also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart Davis to change his ways. Today Stuart Davis, who looks somewhat like a shy bulldog, is among the few painters to translate Paris abstractionism into a jazzy U.S. idiom...
Shirley has never picked up Hollywood's' "sophisticated" speech and manners. Her make-up is sparing, and she still talks in the schoolgirl idiom: "I think it's super." Experts agree that Shirley has a good many happy years ahead-either in or out of the movies...