Word: idiom
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...small minority of radicals is increasingly communicating its politics in the most ancient idiom: violence. In a 15-month period ending last April, there were 4,330 bombings across the U.S. They killed at least 40 persons and injured 384. Right-wing extremists and racists account for some of the destruction. Personal grudges are also involved in many minor bombings. Only two persons have been killed in campus explosions, but the few political radicals who are "into violence" are now practicing it almost routinely-and with increasing expertise-as a necessary instrument of revolution...
...brief trip to Ireland, where the roles of interviewer and interviewee were sometimes reversed. Born in England, Beardwood cut his teeth as a reporter for the Offaly Chronicle in Birr, County Offaly, and so was in perfect position to guide Stein through the intricacies of Irish politics, money and idiom- from RUC (for Royal Ulster Constabulary) to "Let's have a jar and a crack" (a drink and a talk...
American Treadmill. Brel's idiom is barely translatable from Flemish to French, let alone from French to English. Blau and Shuman went an impossible step farther, translating English into American. Les Flamandes (The Flemish Women), for example, became Marathon, and metamorphosed from a Belgian character study into a portrayal of the American treadmill. Then came the hard part. Blau wanted the show staged with "everything floating, and the feeling that all was pressed against a tapestry of utter silence." Off-Broadway, utter silence is a phenomenon that usually occurs only after a show closes...
...faces of American literature, the bank tellers and insurance salesmen who wrote about existence in the evenings. We don't know about the red-skins, the Whitmans and Williamses and Ginsbergs and Olsons who didn't want to be English or metaphysical, but wrote about themselves in their own idiom. These poets are more ours than any others because they have written our language...
Whitman viewed the spoken idiom of Negro Americans as a source for a native grand opera. Its flexibility, its musicality, its rhythms, freewheeling diction and metaphors, as projected in Negro American folklore, were absorbed by the creators of our great 19th century literature even when the majority of blacks were still enslaved. Mark Twain celebrated it in the prose of Huckleberry Finn; without the presence of blacks, the book could not have been written. No Huck and Jim, no American novel as we know it. For not only is the black man a co-creator of the language that Mark...