Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dialect Difficult in Print...
...German of the old 18th Century school who "never in all his life has worn a pair of trousers." Able in business, he has raised the Buddenbrooks to their important position. What if he is a rough diamond, who sometimes forgets himself and relapses into low German dialect before the fine guests...
...often asks: "How do authors collect dialect expressions?" The answer is, I think, usually, that they don't. Ernest Poole once told me that now that the saloon had vanished as a place in which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy...
...entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper of closet drama, of dancing figures in cheesecloth, of symbolism and of dialect. Had this genius chosen to explore life and write of it as he found it, he might have been mentioned in the same breath as Eugene O'Neill...
...basic teachings inculcated in the Vedas. In the words of a competent authority, "Happily, India, though it has at least 20 languages, has but one sacred and learned language (Sanskrit) and one literature (Vedic) accepted and revered by all adherents of Hinduism alike however diverse the race, dialect, rank and creed." Historically studied Hinduism is a growth embodying the truths, experiences, and institutions discovered and reared by man. It is admittedly of human making, fostered by divine inspiration, as every other good deed of man is supposed...