Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In his closing remarks, Dr. Moreno reminded his audience that "this is a didactic demonstration, nothing more."
This is not a facetious answer. Take the "No" part of it first. "South Pacific" is not "really that good" because like all shows, it is not perfect. For one thing, Oscar Hammerstein II has succumbed to a fit of moralizing for a few minutes in the second act, and...
As a case history, Ellen's story is plausibly chronicled and diagnosed. Omitting no details of the disease or minutiae of the therapy, The Cup not only runneth o'er but is several times refilled. Sensational in spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble...
Pritchett is most at home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the...
When his mother died, her place in the gloomy Beyle home at Grenoble was filled by insipid maiden aunts and didactic priests and governesses. Young Henri's life was soon charged with the ideas and feelings that persisted until the day he died-a horror of the established order...