Word: dialectician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan sports editors, the Hearstian Mirror's mustached Dan Parker is the heftiest (260 Ibs.), the most cynical about fight promoters (he keeps needling their racket), and on good days, the poor man's Eustace Tilley.* Dan Parker had some fun with the Bronx tongue in his Dialectician's Dictionary. Samples...
...Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...Logically, the Russians must conclude that the only salvation lies in overthrow al and the consignment of white southerners to American Siberias. It is not Mr. Ehrenburg's treatment of the Negro that is amiss, but his branding of the southerner, and thus, in the manner of a good dialectician, the American government, that is so inaccurate and destructive to mutual understanding...
...starry-eyed actress refuses to accept a Joan willing to compromise, to achieve her mission by working with evil men. The more hard-headed director, a typically Anderson dialectician, defends such a conception, and redefines the actress' idea of "faith." All set to throw up her role, the actress discovers, while rehearsing the final scenes, a Joan intransigent enough to die for her beliefs-and settles for that, with the director, as the true test...
Intellectual Theologian Niebuhr (pronounced Neeber) is no man for the masses: he often has Union Theological Seminary's best students gasping In the high altitudes of his apologetics. On the other hand, he is no mere dialectician of theology: his plain & fancy thinking is as closely welded to the problems of this world's politics as Walter Lippmann's. Last week he once again showed his hand, calluses and all, in his eleventh book, Discerning the Signs of the Times (Scribner...