Word: dialecticism
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Exasperated critics frequently took the failure of feeling further and said that Shaw's characters were unreal, that they were no more than walking arguments. This is a half-truth, though it is a fact that Shaw did not believe in character for its own sake. Few Victorian writers...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling...
According to Rome Correspondent Rospigliosi's account, Fiumicino's clock had been shattered by the war. Since most townsmen had no watches of their own, repairing the clock was an urgent matter to the little fishing village. So the priest called all parties together for a raffle, and...
The play itself (which Eliot charted last year with complex blackboard diagrams at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study) marked his departure from Greek myth and medieval legend. Set in a modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad...
This was the land that brown-skinned young Carlos Morelos grew up in, and where he learned about the simple duties man owes to man, of Chan, the Nacheetls' God of the Universe, and of Jesucristo Salvador too. But when he left his village and moved to the capital...