Word: dialectics
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...solemn Louisiana boy and a credulous old lawyer. Much of my satisfaction with the story came from Walter's mastery of the intricacies of Southern language. The phrase, "Oh, I can't abide creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel...
...Bragg's skinny little boy Nelson" is master of ceremonies and his flunky Uncle Everett is the jockey. He introduces numbers in an indefinable dialect, inevitably ending with, "Thanks just a whole lot, there -- (insert name of star). The music itself is a baffling medley of guitars, fiddles, violins, and whining voices varying in mood from the gay, buoyant "We're Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight" to the lilting sadness of "I Wonder Where Y'are Tonight." Although I have never heard of the singers--the Lane Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, and Tex Logan--apparently they are the aristocracy...
...olive-skinned Pygmies, said Dr. Ellinger last week, speak the Negrito dialect, but also have a language of their own which neither he nor his guides could understand. The little men have finer features than the Negritos and unfrizzed, wavy hair. The women could pass for miniature Indonesians; their light-brown eyes and graceful limbs give them the appearance of tiny Balinese girls...
...course, during these sketches Miss Palmer is always the heroine. She is delightful mouthing lines modeled after Mclieve, Shakespeare, and Chekov, but she just cannot handle a Brooklynese dialect in the American scene; and frankly, I don't see how anyone could. Harrison, too, has no trouble filling brief roles as a gouty husband, a jester, and an Uncle Vanva, but as an American gangster, he is a very brittle tough...
Standing bareheaded in the location's garbage-littered center, Duncan addressed a crowd in their own Sesutu dialect. "Today," he said, "South Africans of all races have come among you with peace and love. I ask you on the long road that lies ahead not to make trouble, but to do what you have to do with love." Then he gave the thumbs-up salute of the Congress and shouted "Africa...