"But I came into a situation in which dialoguing substituted for action.

Newman describes it as "an exquisite miniature, with much dialoguing and intertwining between the woodwind instruments".

His girlfriend, Nancy, speaks mainly psychosexual babble - "I need some dialoguing" - and has other fellows on her mind.

"Using well-developed dialoguing and visioning processes involving the entire community, people could develop new ways to organize themselves with community-supported agriculture, barter and alternative currencies, solar and wind energy, holistic and complementary medicine, and co-ops of all kinds."

Variety called it "pretty fair entertainment . . . steered clear of over sombreness or becoming too morbid" and added, "Just when it threatens to become banal, excellent trouping and some inspired dialoguing snap it back into proper gait."

The "dialoguing" is supposed to persuade him that maybe he was wrong that Jews belonged to a gutter religion, or that Hitler was not all bad, or that rich Jews washed their hands with soap made of poor Jews.