Word: dialecticism
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In The Wayward Bus Steinbeck caught a group of assorted characters in a close and unavoidable situation, sealed them off from their daily lives and examined them. He brought out their responsibilities by a kind of dialectic in friction, playing one person against another.
A Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare...
The Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point...
Threading his way through the thorns of Communist dialectic last week, Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti gave the measure of how deeply the Khrushchev revelations had shaken party foundations in Italy. Stalin "committed many errors," purred red-eyed Palmiro, "but he also did many good things . . . This was the strange...
In the literary controversy that has raged in Moscow since Sholokhov's attack, the magazine New World, an organ of the Writers' Union, this month began publishing Bruno Yasienki's long-suppressed novel, The Plot of the Indifferent, with a preface by his widow referring to his...