Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music circuit. They have a unique appeal. Like most British rock 'n' roll groups, they began by imitating such hard-rocking blues merchants as Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters (whose Rolling Stones Blues inspired their name); the result was a musically roughhewn sound sung in mock Negro dialect. In 1964, the Stones decided that if the Beatles were the goodies, they would be the baddies. They scowled, talked surly, and sang such suggestive leerics...
Maxwell Smart. Evidence that the lady is Ginevra is a scroll-like design, incorporating a juniper tree, that appears on the back of the painting, plus a juniper tree behind her head (ginevra means juniper in Italian dialect). Proof that it is by Leonardo lies in the handiwork itself. When the National Gallery began serious negotiations with the Prince, shortly after the deal with Simon had fallen through, Director John Walker sent Mario Modestini, a New York restorer, to examine the painting. "He went over it, literally, with a microscope for 2½ hours," reported the gallery's secretary...
...practitioner grows more skilled, he may proceed to literary allusions, and even, in the case of Crime and Punishment, to dialect...
...religious battle lay factors less obvious but no less persuasive. Goan Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most speak a dialect of the Marathi language. But the determining question was whether Goa should cease to exist. In exchange for the territory's own legislature, established three years ago by New Delhi, all the promerger forces could offer were four seats in the Maharashtra state assembly, a pitiful representation...
...dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys than from life; her Negro dialect is echt Amos 'n' Andy...