‘Maestro’: The Title of a Movie About a Title for a Master
Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. The title of the new biopic about the life of Leonard Bernstein from actor/director Bradley Cooper—“Maestro”—might seem like an obvious choice. Bernstein, after all, was a widely celebrated…
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