Word: dialectic
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PORGY-DuBose Heyward-Doran ($2.00). Straightforward story-telling in a poet's prose is always rich reading. Poet Heyward's province is South Carolina-Negro life along the waterfront of old Charleston, with the atavistic rhythms, religion and animalism firmly rendered, the dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...
...shrewd excitement. The play will undoubtedly remain as a valuable, if fanciful, page of U. S. history. The acting of Rudolph Cameron and Helen Chandler in the chief parts was more than satisfactory. And the play is probably the only one ever produced through which the difficult southern dialect was consistently and convincingly maintained...
...minor ways, of course the imitation of Jesus is today impossible. His clothes, his Aramaic dialect, such things as these, and others deeper still in which his modes of thought and speech were necessarily conformed to the customs of his country and time, we cannot follow. But his character is so universal that even Renan cries: 'Whatever the surprises of history, Jesus will never be surpassed.' Men of all generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their...
...Specimen Dialect and Moralizing. Wing Foo, cook: "Boss Big Bloy him no catch um happness, nobody catch um happness. Boss Big Bloy him catch um Missee Nola, evlybody catch um happness?that mo bette...