Comments on: Monthly Gleanings: October 2008, Part Two http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/monthly-gleanings-october-2008-part-two/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Steinman http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/monthly-gleanings-october-2008-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-155913 Michael Steinman Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:12:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2269#comment-155913 About "dreamboat": does a song title / lyric count as a citation? "When My Dreamboat Comes Home," (Friend-Franklin) was recorded in 1935 by Bing Crosby and was a substantial hit for the next twenty years. Whether songwriters invented idioms or were alert to the newest ones is a perhaps unanswerable question, but this 1935 one seems solid, especially as the lyrics describe "dreamboat" as the lover whose return is eagerly anticipated. I found your site in my own websearch -- on my way to post an instrumental jazz video of the song on my blog, unashamedly listed here. Cheers, Michael Steinman (JAZZ LIVES) About “dreamboat”: does a song title / lyric count as a citation? “When My Dreamboat Comes Home,” (Friend-Franklin) was recorded in 1935 by Bing Crosby and was a substantial hit for the next twenty years. Whether songwriters invented idioms or were alert to the newest ones is a perhaps unanswerable question, but this 1935 one seems solid, especially as the lyrics describe “dreamboat” as the lover whose return is eagerly anticipated. I found your site in my own websearch — on my way to post an instrumental jazz video of the song on my blog, unashamedly listed here. Cheers, Michael Steinman (JAZZ LIVES)

]]> By: Lisa http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/monthly-gleanings-october-2008-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-148756 Lisa Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:03:35 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2269#comment-148756 Regarding "That's all she wrote": Hazlitt writes: "there is no single speech which can convey a satisfactory idea of his [Burke's] powers of mind: to do him justice, it would be necessary to quote all his works; the only specimen of Burke is, all that he wrote. With respect to most others speakers, a specimen is generally enough, or more than enough." In order words, we need "all that he wrote" to have an adequate representation of Burke's character. The idiom, here, has no connotation of finality -- has nothing in common with the meaning of "That's all she wrote." The expression "antedates World War II by a century and a half" is not likely. Regarding “That’s all she wrote”:

Hazlitt writes: “there is no single speech which can convey a satisfactory idea of his [Burke's] powers of mind: to do him justice, it would be necessary to quote all his works; the only specimen of Burke is, all that he wrote. With respect to most others speakers, a
specimen is generally enough, or more than enough.”

In order words, we need “all that he wrote” to have an adequate representation of Burke’s character. The idiom, here, has no
connotation of finality — has nothing in common with the meaning of “That’s all she wrote.” The expression “antedates World War II by a
century and a half” is not likely.

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