Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...
...poems, and told his son: "A man who hasn't worked on the [Odes] is like one who stands with his face to a wall." In this volume. Poet Ezra Pound makes a free and brilliant translation, even to the use of jazz idioms and hillbilly dialect...
...Rome bureau's tutor is Giorgio Vanucci, who learned his English in Allied prison camps during the war. He speaks pure Tuscan, has little tolerance for Anglicized Italian or the intrusion of Roman dialect. Occasionally his uncompromising stand on pronunciation produces mutinous rumblings among his TIME students...
Died. Strickland Gillilan, 84, oldtime Midwest newspaperman turned humorist, best known for his 1910 Irish-dialect railroader poem, Finnigin to Flannigan ("Off agin, on agin, gone agin.-Finnigin"); in Warrenton...
Without the inflection of voice and dialect, the sixty-four characters in the play are likely to merge, talking again for all men rather than for themselves. But out of this jumble come the author's poetry and his view of life. Perhaps the clearest statement of Thomas' feeling is given in Polly Garter's speech and the following stage direction. She surveys her past both ruefully and with an inner content, concluding, "Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank...