Word: didacticism
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The very name TLR essentially invalidates the relationships of sexually-active, non-married couples, as if to suggest that abstinence is the only way to find true love. Worse, by targeting women with their cards and didactic message, they perpetuate an age-old values system in which the worth of...
Like a provocative lecture packed with unanswered questions, “Double Hung I,” the first of a two-part exhibition of student artwork at the Carpenter Center, left me yearning for resolution. “Double Hung I” intriguingly dangles conceptual ideas within viewers?...
Growing up in the Baptist-dominated wilds of western North Carolina, I usually watched book burnings with a mixture of perplexity and dismay. Now I understand them. Sometimes, books are so offensive they necessitate bonfires. Case in point: Mitch Albom’s new bestseller. “For One...
In 1961, less than a year after graduating from Harvard College, Michael C. Rockefeller ’60 joined the Peabody Museum’s 1961 New Guinea Expedition as a sound recordist and photographer. Shortly after the expedition, Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea while on a personal trip to...
“I didn’t wake up one morning and say, ‘Ah, I’m going to be a documentary filmmaker,” said Nicolas Philibert. Largely lauded as the most famous documentarian in France, if not all of Europe, five of...