Word: dialects
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...imperturbability. His Fifth Symphony is the product of one good month last summer; this summer he plans to write six concertos for neglected instruments such as the trombone and guitar. He swoops through the Alban hills in his Maserati, sunning himself in "the Italian humanity" and perfecting his Roman dialect. "I live in a tradition of German artists who have lived in Italy," he says. "Mozart, Goethe and Wagner all went to Italy, and when Handel stayed in Naples, he had 20 valets. I think that's wonderfully extraordinary...
...intends no social criticism (like Sahl), finds no side to comedy but the comic. He has never (like Bruce) depended on Negro or Jewish dialect for laughs, knowing that the vulnerable do not enjoy being kidded. His comedy is eager and innocent; he plays to the child in Everyman, allowing no room in his spectrum for the off-color, no time in his world for anything but the basic games of laughter, song and pantomime. While others find subject for sport in drugs, dames, madmen and sit-ins, Danny Kaye looks around, beyond and behind him toward a world where...
...cantata is scored for three vocal soloists, a chorus and orchestra, and is based on the Fastnacht, or pre-Lenten festival, for which Mainz is famous. The text, partly by Hindemith and partly by Playwright Carl Zuckmayer, has the soprano and tenor soloists singing only in Mainzer dialect while the baritone sings in high German. Soprano and tenor are supposed to be watching an imaginary Fastnacht procession passing before them as they face the audience, and in the roles of low comics exchange opinions with the baritone about the history of Mainz. The exchange gives Hindemith the chance...
...credit course, but President Pusey's office has refused on the grounds that here is no well-defined literature in Swahili. Swahili, since this December, is the official language of Tanganyika. Spoken extensively in East Africa, it is a lingua-franca, representing combinations of Arabic and local dialect, and is described by linguists as one of the "most regular" languages in the world...
Naturally, JC never understands Kitten. Readers, making their way through her frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force...