Word: dialectical
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...Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
Haiti's Marbial section was almost ideal for the experiment. Of its 26,000 inhabitants, three out of four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...
...magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes, as U.S. Editor, will cable 8,000 words a week of U.S. news and comment to London, where it will be translated into the British dialect...
...Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva Pious) is a triumph of comic virtuosity. To avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also...
...read his resignation in a slow, composed voice, using the Shanghai dialect. "Three times during the course of the last year I submitted my resignation. . . . The Generalissimo has finally granted my request." Then he described how the national currency had been secured by silver specie until 1935, when the U.S. policy of high prices for silver drained China's reserves, forcing her to adopt managed currency. Managed currency depended on the people and Government "exercising self-restraint"; there had been too little self-restraint. "The managed-currency system that saved China contained in it the germs of the poison...