Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Huck, speaking the superbly authentic dialect of his age and his place, Holden is a runaway from respectability, the possessor of a fierce sense of justice, the arbiter of his own morality. If one fact more than any other links Catcher to its generation, it is that for Holden?as presumably for his creator?the ultimate condemnation is summed up in the word phony. A whole, vague system of ethics centers around that word, and Holden Caulfield is its Kant...
...they worshiped in private houses without the sacraments (being material, they were evil) or the cross (because Christ had no real body and died no real death). They read the Scriptures-especially the Gospel of John-listened to a sermon, said the Lord's Prayer (in native Languedoc dialect rather than Latin) and shared a common meal. The clergy wore black robes-until Pope Innocent's crusade began...
...varsity letter, ad the base of the shield consequently squared off to conform with the shape of the paper (and the wit of the administration). With this further revision the Veritas Committee itself would thus be assured that there will no longer be any foreign language in our official dialect...
Still active at 74, Von Frisch has now reported his latest discovery: subspecies of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have a language, or dialect, all their own that cannot be understood by or taught to other subspecies. Explaining his findings before the Austrian Academy of Science...
...evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby to breathe. When the baby gasped its first, faint squawks, tough old Surgeon Seagrave's relief was as obvious as that of the softest hearted televiewer...