Word: dialectic
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...Step. It is not impossible that this play, shorn of about 20 character, focussed to pick out the lights and shadows, and rewritten with a feeling for the jazz dialect, might be a pert and serviceable entertainment. In its present form, it is diffuse, dreary...
...accepted invitations to lecture before various societies of scholars and laymen in England this spring. During the years in which she was writing her life of Keats, she wrote many poems; in fact, a collection of these will be published this autumn; and there are her well-known Yankee dialect sketches, one of which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that she perpetrated her literary hoax, a la her famous...
...play is a pleasant little trifle, dealing easily with the simple lives of the farm folk of Devonshire, to whom habit complexes and six expressions are charmingly unknown. The difficulty of finding enough American actors and actresses qualified to handle the Devonshire dialect, even with modifications, is evident in spots throughout the performance, but in general the acting of the cast is finished and convincing. Walter Edwin, as "Churdles Ash", the hired man, is particularly to be praised, even though Mr. Phillpotts has cast his character in a form which makes it impossible for him to converse save in epigrams...
...outside subscription. As to library and laboratory, their liberality knows no bound short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. Doctorates in philosophy are awarded for theses on the digamma in Anglo-Saxon or on the iota subscript in Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing it in dramatic action illumined by the accent and vernacular of today, they and the teacher who abets them are suspect. So-called English composition...
...woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature'; so is Glava, and her nurse talks in an Irish dialect." It sounds a thoroughly bad book, yet she counsels people to read...