Word: dialectically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permitted their teen-agers to attend two years of high school as well. Still, they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained other Amish objections to high school: "We like our children to learn the three Rs, and the public schools...
Educators and psychologists from across the country met in a conference at the Ed School Friday and Saturday in an effort to discover ways of increasing the respectability of the black dialect in America...
Bouldin said that many schools do not understand black culture. "A lot of teachers think that a child is dumb or slow it he talks in the black dialect at school," he said. Bouldin also said that schools and testing programs must accept the validity of the black dialect and adjust...
...indeed. The dialect as only one of many he used freely in the course of the evening, and pals was only one of many things he called the audience as they responded to his often witty and coherent monologue with pained silence, sporadic hissing, and brief-Anglo-Saxon shouts...
Alas, today's press background in general tends more towards gargle than vitriol. Peter Bogdanovich, film buff extraordinaire and doubtless nice guy, fashions a Sherwood Anderson-cum-Texas dialect-cum-hokum pastiche, The Last Picture Show, and gets praised by Life for bringing life back to movies. Stanley Kubrick--more impressive pictorially, bearded and brooding--reeks of intellect for as stodgy a publication as Saturday Review...