Word: debunkment
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Concluded Highet: "I want us to teach that even these 'classic' men were subject to human conflicts and pressures. I don't want to debunk them . . . I don't believe in the late-'20s school of showing Jefferson as a bungling dilettante, or Washington as an ignorant country squire. That's all nonsense. These were all great men, greater than you or I. But I want to keep them from being statues. That's what they've become from bad teaching...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools As a salesman for the University. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools as a salesman for the University. Dean Leighton's circuit includes Illinois, Nebraska and lowa. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class are now police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...
There are two schools of writing, this shaggy-browed poet tells the class; inspiration and craftsmanship; he then proceeds to debunk the notion, ("a hangover from romanticism") that all writing is the produce of the divine word alone. The artist must create from within, the says, but it can't be done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished...
...Movies is a broad, awed survey of how U.S. movies are produced, distributed and exhibited. Coming: Film Actors (M-G-M), which will prove that, underneath, the boys & girls are really just hardworking, clean-living kids; The Art Director (20th Century-Fox), which will debunk such box-office attractions as earthquakes and moonlit water by disclosing trade tricks of process photography and set construction...