Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little...
...Without a revamping of our ideas and practices in these areas . . . our efforts to preserve a civilized social order will be feeble and hollow. . . ." How this revamping is to be accomplished, practically under fire, is left somewhat vague, all the more so because Author Mumford. by habit, intention and idiom, addresses his exhortation to the one group in the U. S. which is least capable of acting on it-the liberal intellectuals...
...idiom; Lucien Lyne, Derby winner in 1902; and Johnny Bullman, winner in 1900-01. Lindheimer's 4-mile race, to be known as the Marathon championship, will enjoy the dubious distinction of being America's longest...
...Japanese bridled. "If the British take Japan for a sucker," warned Asahi in the wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...Town is also a poem in play form. Thornton Wilder wrote it in the only poetic idiom which Americans always understand-simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...