Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic and administrative circles. Lerner's article, "Respectable Bigotry", shows how academic liberals serenely espouse a double standard; empathizing with blacks and proud of their own lack of racism, their understanding seems to disappear as they sneer at police and factory workers as 'fascist pigs' and 'ethnics'. Black dialect is 'cool', while white ethnics are inarticulate fools...
Mary's parents were firmly upper-class. In Venice they forced her to put on white gloves, to act the role of the young aristocrat, and to speak Italian instead of her German dialect. Life with the indulgent poet and the aloof, implacable violinist was made out of what her village parents would consider frivolity. In the village farmhouse there had been only two books: The Life of Christ and The Lives of the Saints. At the center of Pound's villa library in Venice, among all the books in all the many languages, there was huge, wood-bound Ovid...
...punishes unseemly conduct by destroying a man's wisdom, money or children. Business picked up later, however, and in Madras alone 150 drunks had been arrested by nightfall. That pointed up another worry. Too much tippling could wreck the state's principal industry: movies in the Tamil dialect. Since no one else understands them. Tamil movies are shown over and over to local viewers, who are often so taken with the actors, plot or music that they come back a third or fourth time. The problem now is, will the movie audiences remain as faithful when they have...
Even Shirley Ann Grau's best novel, The Hard Blue Sky, is very casually plotted. But she can write with a poet's concentration and record dialect knowingly. Perhaps The Condor Passes is merely an attempt to join the mainstream-as the South is now supposed to be doing-and to market all that distilled violence nationally. Still, there is richer life in the bayous than in the mainstream. One can only hope that she will soon be back in her old pirogue...
...forms despite all the critics who prefer phonics from the start. On balance, says Dr. Carl Smith of Indiana University's Reading and Evaluation Center, "Many of our traditional approaches have been successful with many children, but chiefly those with normal cultural experiences, a typical vocabulary and no dialect problems...