Word: burnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DICTIONARY OF MISINFORMATION by TOM BURNAM 302 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell...
...truth seeker is Tom Burnam, an English professor at Portland State University in Oregon, and his compendium is the best antidote to nonsense since H.L. Mencken hung up his spites. "I believe," says Burnam in his introduction to The Dictionary of Misinformation, "that when we fall it's not because our reasoning faculties have tripped us; it's because of the things we know that just aren...
...that we may never trip again, Burnam reminds us that...
...Burnam is more utilitarian than American Credo and is barely winged by Benchley, it is because his compendium contains more truth and less malice than its predecessors. The Dictionary of Misinformation misleads only once -in its title. Information is all that the volume contains: enough to keep the canny reader collecting bar bets for the rest of the year. Stefan Kanfer
...issue is not really one that depends on the substance of the report," Burnam said. "The issue is whether students can participate in the evaluation of the Law School...