Word: dialect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak city hall of Kozane, a northern Greek mountain town, 13 peasants stood before a U. N. field team. The peasants had been hostages of General Markos Vafiades' Communist Andartes. In the mixed Greek-Slav-Albanian dialect of the Macedonian border people, they haltingly told their story...
...Molly is, artistically, the same composite of lower and middle class that the Goldbergs are socially. It stands where dialect humor and realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
Though a career diplomat, Lane has written a blunt and frank report. Where it falls down badly is in the writing. Lane uses that jargon habitual to diplomats, a dialect sometimes confused with English, which makes his occasional revelations seem as blandly dull as his report of an exchange of diplomatic amenities...
...Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
...presented as if she were just too terribly cute, whereas she is actually playing a spoiled brat who has yet to learn that the world is not her oyster. Mr. Madison, pouting perpetually, matches her for infantilism and bad manners, point for point; and they talk a jive dialect in which one of the most intelligible words is "jeepers." Those who find such types attractive will get a lot of laughs. In spite of the handicaps. Miss Temple plays her sinister assignment adroitly and, now that she's getting to be a big girl, looks quite all right...