Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now, at 45, the Cornell-based scientist is displaying his didactic gifts in his largest classroom yet. The first two of Cosmos' 13 weekly episodes may have attracted more viewers (perhaps as many as 10 million each) than any regular series in PBS history. With a budget of $8.5 million...
"In the beginning all the world was America." John Locke's 300-year-old phrase still keeps its haunting simplicity. For generations, America meant the part of the earth that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on...
Alice Childress' Wedding Band adds two twists to the usual plot of interracial sex stories. First, the male character is white; second, he and the female character are in love. But rather than use these unusual plot contrivances to probe new ideas from a different perspective, Childress presents a familiar...
Fourteen years and four or five version later, I've learned that Charlie Brown is no work of art, but it still manages to instruct and delight about as well as any show of its kind. One of the children who sat cross-legged in front of the first row...
The third level is Fantasy, expressed in over-blown production numbers. At one point in the movie, Gideon watches from his hospital bed as a pretentious television critic tears apart The Stand-up, rating it half-a-balloon out of a possible four. Among her criticisms: "Razzle-dazzle obliterates story...