Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intrigues me is by a Wellesley sophomore, Carol Bosworth. What to call the article is the problem. She terms it "didactic effusions," which would put anybody off. It is really an extended reminiscence, punctuated with a sometimes, bitter, sometimes wise, philosophical narrative. With a good ear for dialogue--and dialect--and a sharp eye for detail, Miss Bosworth successfully evokes her childhood and early religious training. The interwoven commentary is equally precise, chopping up the "effusions" with such pungencies as "Jews are made and not born...
...American major." Carlson, member of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, had seen military service only as a seaman, for 22 months in the 1940s. He voluntarily stayed behind rebel lines to minister to their wounded, living in a village of 50 inhabitants called, in the native dialect, "The End of the World." But Gbenye announced that Carlson had been "tried" as a spy and sentenced to death. The missionary and the rebels' other white prisoners-60 Americans and 800 Belgians-would be released only after the U.S. and Belgium withdrew all aid to Tshombe's army. Last...
...This is a land so vast," reports TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, "that winter snows are already howling across large areas of it while other expanses still simmer in humid tropical heat. A land so fragmented that millions upon millions of its human swarm cannot understand the dialect spoken by millions and millions more. So ancient that its past is a palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that...
...Swingle Singers, however, sing it straight in the most elementary scat dialect-mainly "da-ba, da-ba" and "doo-boo, doo-boo," with an occasional "papa-da, chin-chin" or "waap" tossed in for special accents. While the revved-up tempo calls for a certain amount of vocal gymnastics, they stick faithfully to the score and never improvise. In fact, their allegiance is much more to Bach than it is to jazz. Their approach is restrained, respectful, and marked by finely honed precision and musicianship...
...role that Julie Andrews had clearly been born to play. Purists may cavil that Hepburn's singing voice, most of it dubbed by Soprano Marni Nixon, sounds too much like Julie and not enough like Audrey. But after a slow start, when the practiced proficiency of her cockney dialect suggests that Actress Hepburn is really only slumming, she warms her way into a graceful, glamorous performance, the best of her career...