Word: didacticism
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Alckmin's problems were twofold: First, Lula convincingly portrayed the former physician as the candidate of the rich, and Alckmin could not shake off the image in the minds of many voters of a button-down bogeyman out to privatize state assets and roll back the generous benefits programs that...
At least Schelling recognizes some of his missteps. A humble tone peaks out in several non-didactic portions of the book. He even acknowledges that the final chapter of “Micromotives” is dense. Indeed, it is filled with many graphs that require some careful inspection, but...
In the initial response to the Iraq war, didactic “documentary”—particularly in America—postulations of Bush’s mustache-twirling villainy ruled the political filmmaking arena, including “Why We Fight,” ?...
Monopoly was introduced in 1935--the midst of the Great Depression. Marketing a game about building business empires to a country whose economy has collapsed sounds like some kind of dark conceptual satire, and fittingly, the game has a conflicted attitude toward wealth. On the one hand, it portrays business...
The air is crisp, the excitement is palpable, and there are no classes yet. You’ll be flooded with a series of didactic meetings accompanied by hilariously dated videos, placement tests, and activities fairs that confound the senses.