Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The reissue of Critic Mark Van Doren's prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he...
The late, great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was Czechoslovakia's George Washington. He and Benes first met at Prague's Charles University, and thereby began one of history's notable partnerships in thought, politics and statesmanship. Masaryk's influence turned the didactic radical into a tolerant...
¶ Said Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, didactic Episcopal churchman: "The modern American university . . . will not face fundamental moral issues. . . . It ignores God and thinks and acts as though man is a creature who only needs to know the right in order to do it. The result . . . is an academic befuddlement...
In long passages the voice flowed on, flat and didactic, as if it were weak and being nursed along: "The National Socialist State - our 2,000-year-old civilization -can neither be replaced by Bolshevism nor by democratic-p'utocratic ideology. . . . This nation . . . and its leading men are unshakable...
Hawk-eyed, didactic General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery is the darling of the British public, the despair of the brass-hatted British War Office. Many a tender-skinned staff officer has quoted an apocryphal toast, usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "To General Montgomery! Indomitable in defeat, indefatigable in attack, insufferable...