Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McNally appears uneasy with his own sermonizing. One of his novel's characters a teacher, rejects his career because the staff exerts pressure on him to use textbooks. He considers formal education superfluous, a poor preparation for life. Living will teach us all we need to know. This attitude stands...
James claims that she "wasn't setting out to write a didactic novel," Yet the book has obvious moral overtones. She depicts a society in decay, and suggests that it can only be healed through irrational, selfless love. The Children of Men abounds in christological imagery, with a single child...
But the show is far from didactic. This is as much as anything a musical about the magic of musicals, and its title character -- sultrily sung and danced with eyebrow-high kicks by Chita Rivera at 60, an age when she qualifies for a senior citizen's London bus pass...
Matisse's best-known remark about his art didn't help much either: he wanted "an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter," that would soothe the mind of "every mental worker . . . something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue...
If the play is meant to be merely a dark-humored farce, it should have more funny lines and less of a didactic message about patriarchy and imperialism. Decadence by itself can conceivably be fascinating and amusing if it's made clear that morality has no part in the world...