Word: dialectician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TELEVISION, which can never get quite enough talent, is currently getting a mighty dollop of it from one man. He is a playwright, director, actor; a veteran of the West End, Broadway and Hollywood; wit, linguist, dialectician and a mimic who can echo anything from a talking dog to a racing car. For an account of his prolific adventures in TV and elsewhere, see TELEVISION AND RADIO, Busting Out All Over...
...sort of Orson Welles rolled into one. He has 13 produced plays to his credit, two of which have reached Broadway (the first: The Love of Four Colonels), has acted in dozens of plays and movies, directed half a dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script...
...Tito managed instinctively to play off against each other. When he needed strength for his rebellion against Moscow, the man with peasant roots and romantic flair could draw on his people's patriotism; when he needed strength to subdue his own turbulent people, the practiced conspirator and Marxist dialectician could draw on Moscow police methods. If more of the world could understand the brutality of this ideological alliance-which persists despite very real political rifts-Communism everywhere would have a tougher time wrapping itself in national flags...
...present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
...Caesar: "A gifted dialectician, a truly artistic pantomimist and a master of timing ... He is a technically consummate artist...