Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard President Holyoke married the former Mrs. Glover. His admiration for her business acumen and the monopoly she enjoyed in the trade made him throw the University's printing her way. In addition, her shop printed such books as the bay Pslam Book and the Bible in an Indian dialect...
...government asked William Townsend of the University of Oklahoma's Summer Institute of Linguistics to head a mission to teach the Indians to read and write their own languages. Townsend, a friendly, energetic man who learned his first dialect (Cakchiquel) in 1917 trying to sell Bibles to the Indians of Guatemala, went to Peru in 1945 with eleven assistants. Before they could teach, Townsend and his teachers had to learn the local tongues themselves. Deciding to concentrate on the 18 most widely used dialects, they set off for the jungle...
Romulo was left to the comedians; the record of Quirino's Liberal Party was left to Magsaysay himself. Speaking mostly in Tagalog dialect, heaving with emotion, Magsaysay told of the 1951 murder of Politician Moises Padilla, "whose only crime was to make speeches against the administration." He told how Padilla's legs were broken, his eyes gouged out, and his tongue pierced, before he was killed by five bullets in the back. "I carried his body in my arms," shouted Magsaysay. "It was not the body of Padilla I carried, but the body of the humble people...
...solemn Louisiana boy and a credulous old lawyer. Much of my satisfaction with the story came from Walter's mastery of the intricacies of Southern language. The phrase, "Oh, I can't abide creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel...
...Bragg's skinny little boy Nelson" is master of ceremonies and his flunky Uncle Everett is the jockey. He introduces numbers in an indefinable dialect, inevitably ending with, "Thanks just a whole lot, there -- (insert name of star). The music itself is a baffling medley of guitars, fiddles, violins, and whining voices varying in mood from the gay, buoyant "We're Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight" to the lilting sadness of "I Wonder Where Y'are Tonight." Although I have never heard of the singers--the Lane Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, and Tex Logan--apparently they are the aristocracy...