Word: idiom
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...Harvard, the Crimson Network dedicates an hour a week to this music to please undergraduate enthusiasts. But these Tuesday and Thursday programs also afford the uninitiated listener a rare chance to hear some of the best recorded performances in the jazz idiom and tradition. And if after a few of these recitals he finds himself sensing the unaffected exuberance of a fast Johnny Hodges solo, and the spirit and stimulation of the music begins to reveal itself, he can be assured that his musical taste is improving--no mistake...
...Germany long before Woodrow Wilson, and characteristically put his conviction into action by joining the Army. He served in France as commander of a battalion of Field Artillery, still holds a brigadier's commission in the Inactive Reserve and can still talk to field soldiers in their own idiom...
...taken as a whole, are examples of the hot style at its uninhibited, unrestricted best. Some of them have been known to draw grudging approval even from those Philistines who refuse to see anything in such music, for they possess a quality which transcends petty prejudices against the jazz idiom...
...audience-the Foreign Policy Association and worldwide radio listeners-gave attentive heed. For his speech was the best statement yet made, in other than Rooseveltian idiom, of the official...
...first novel, 28-year-old Daniel Lundberg uses an idiom of his own. At once callow and articulate, it can make things seem simultaneously ridiculous and touching without showing a trace of the oldtime Tarkington smirk. It is the almost perfect tongue for the self-revelations of a Dedham high-school senior...