Word: dialection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INEXPERIENCED acting and awkward staging account for the rough spots in the production. The English accents pronounced by some of the younger actors waver a bit indecisively before settling on region and dialect. Occasionally failing to pay attention to one another, the players time some of their remarks poorly. And though the audience surrounds the stage on only three sides with the bulk of the spectators in front of the stage, altogether too many of the characters' movements are directed to the back of the set, as if the play were being performed in the round. The actors often manage...
...score of cases while representing the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund before the Supreme Court prior to 1962, but now finds himself in the Burger Court's liberal minority. The court's best raconteur, who sometimes likes to jive groups of whites by lapsing ostentatiously into a broad black dialect. Has collected an informal panel of law professors and judges to help choose his clerks, who as a result are now usually the best in the building. Still impatient with legal complexities, preferring to go to the right or wrong of a situation as he sees it. Another activist who will...
...have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country's greatest living poet: "When I was in school, you were punished if you lapsed into the Scots dialect. You were never taught much more about your own country than, of course, what a great thing it was to have been handed over to the greater glory of England...
...least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love..." If men and women start out speaking different languages, then Grace Paley's voice seems one of the most effective translations, into the language of the short story, of that female dialect...
...achievement. But the force of personality in Jerry Bruck's crisp, clear documentary is very simple: Stone is a kind of fanatic, a crazyman--squinting out at the world from behind thick glasses, he is dogged in his commitment to investigative reporting. In Washington, where lying is the local dialect, Stone has to be eccentric, avoiding the cocktail circuit and the large, compromised publications, working like mad to interpret volumes of rhetoric. He's a unique and admirable figure, whose contribution to the public's right to know spans 20 years. I.F. Stone was one of the few positive forces...