Word: dialectics
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...children into the faith. Not only is intermarriage more common today, but younger Parsis are growing indifferent to the elaborate rituals and obscure doctrines of the faith. Relatively few Parsis can even read the three extant volumes containing Zoroaster's teachings, which are written in an ancient Persian dialect. Although proud of their history, many Parsis increasingly regard the religion they profess as an expression of a unique cultural heritage rather than as a faith to be lived...
...Belgian town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...
...popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based on an African chant...
...ONLY PETER COOK . . . BUT ALSO DUDLEY MOORE (Decca). Two of the funny foursome of Beyond the Fringe make dialect ventures into such subjects as an order of leaping nuns and hanging The Laughing Cavalier in the "lav." They are every bit as beyond as ever...
...unfolds this simple tale with elemental force, and acts it accordingly. His natives are not the usual faceless blacks but human beings whose capacity for violence the hero quickly matches. In the script, sparely written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry of its past in raw colors...