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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 16, 2009bowdlerize \BODE-luh-rise; BOWD-\, transitive verb: 1. To remove or modify the parts (of a book, for example) considered offensive. The president did not call for bowdlerizing all entertainment, but stressed keeping unsuitable material away from the eyes of children. His tempestuous high school years are touched upon in a delightful scene where the precocious Roy infuriates his English teacher by trying to restore some of Shakespeare's saucier lines to that classroom's bowdlerized study of Hamlet. Gershwin bowdlerized his original operatic vision of "Porgy," simplifying it for Broadway. In 1976, the Houston Grand Opera, led by David Gockley, revived the original vision. Bowdlerize derives from the name Thomas Bowdler, an editor in Victorian times who rewrote Shakespeare, removing all profanity and sexual references so as not to offend the sensibilities of the audiences of his day. | |||||||||
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