Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cavalcade's back-bending apologies placated the old knight, but within a month Cavalcade's muddling had Sir George's attorneys again on the trail. While Editor Brittain was away recuperating from his strenuous July, another blunderling picked an old letter from Cavalcade's, unused type...
Dr. Fishbein. At various times, various types of doctors have personified the American Medical Association. At one time it was a William Osler, learned, sympathetic bedside physician. At another time it was an austere, didactic experimenter like Simon Flexner. Now it is worldly, alert Dr. Morris Fishbein who writes 15...
In his Ohio youth, William Holmes McGuffey, son of a Scotch-Irish Indian fighter from Pennsylvania, never set eyes on the two books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's...
Off from Manhattan for three weeks in Europe, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was asked if she did not regard the domestic labor situation as critical. Sniffed she: "If I did, I would not be leaving." In Washington, meanwhile, Artist George Biddle put finishing touches on his fresco for the...
Even readers who noted Aldous Huxley's increasing seriousness could hardly be prepared for the calm didactic tone with which Eyeless in Gaza begins. The title comes from Milton's line, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill, with slaves," and the author announces his story as that of...