Word: debunkment
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...slyly barbed study that might pass for one of Lytton Strachey's lesser portraits of eminent Victorians. British Author Arthur Calder-Marshall has done the best biography yet of the self-made sage of sex. It is not Author Calder-Marshall's purpose to debunk, but nearness lends disenchantment with a man like Ellis. The heroic side is that, leading from utter weakness, Ellis helped win such a signal victory for the study of sexual deviations as to rob posterity of its need...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. The best biography so far of the quirky genius; a work that describes and evaluates, but does hot try to debunk...
...Disease Alone. Despite the ingenuity of their retrospective diagnosis, the Butterfields are far from wanting to debunk Saint Joan. "Though we may understand the reason for her visions," they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...
...government sadhus," as old-line holy men already contemptuously call them, are expected to return to their own parts of the country equipped to combat such evils as the caste system, official corruption, adulteration of foodstuffs and the disuniting influence of local dialects. They will also try to debunk the sadhu as an object of superstitious awe by presenting themselves simply as do-gooders, rather than miracle men, and interpreting Hindu scripture in terms of social service...
Several Harvard professors were quick to debunk any such attempts to link mathematics with symbolism. "It just can't be done," one professor chuckled, "although the fact that he returned to his starting place may be significant. Possibly a longing for the eternal return," he explained, "yes, the eternal return...