Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these short-term subscriptions as a reminder of home as they settle in, but we are learning from their enthusiastic letters that our magazines are serving a further purpose. "Mabalos Po," writes Peace Corps Volunteer Edward T. Kelley II, "thank you very much, in my new language, the Bikol dialect." He is now circulating the magazines among the townspeople of Malilipot in the Philippines, in a new reading center he is establishing there. The same notion seems to have occurred to volunteers in many other places, and we think it's a fine idea...
...companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
...imprisoned by it. Davis' paintings became ballets of what he called "color-spaces," but the beat of the ballets was always jazz. What caught his imagination was everyday America-the gas pumps, factories, cities, the hep talk and hip music-even the signs, "the visual dialect of the city." Since he never lost touch with reality, Davis refuses to be called abstract. His color-spaces are merely "a language to express daily observations...
...plot was hard enough to take: a woman enters a convent to cleanse herself of sensuality, only to end up begging a young officer to rape her. But Audiberti's attention-demanding pace, his mixing of dialect and modern slang with classical French, his erotic, violent language, his loving description of urination-all were too much. "Scandal!" the audience roared...
Steve Botein occasionally founders on the dialect, but he is generally effective as Preacher Haggler. In the church scene, he is overpowering as, sweating profusely, he shouts down the devil. Arthur Roberts competently plays Marvin Hudgens, who lusts after Barbara Allen, and Sarah Leary and Rosalind Miller are two of the sexiest, most fetching little witches you could ever hope...