Word: dialecticism
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The Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast.
The Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast.
Playwright Wesker's dialectic is flimsy and his metaphor is strained, but his theater is terrific. Transferring such theater to the screen is about as tetchy an operation as carrying nitroglycerin in a sieve, but Director James Hill, in his first full-length film, has done the job with...
"The successive presentation of views and recommendations by isolated individuals is no substitute for the dialectic confrontation of such views in a group which can put differing opinions to the test of empirical verification and logical analysis. Also, in a contest among equals for the President's ear those...
The phenomenon of change in the U.S. contributes to anxiety in another way: no one "knows his place," and even if he does and likes it, there are no easy ways of announcing the fact to others. The worker can indeed still become boss, the immigrant a settled American. But...