Word: didacticism
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Yoon's call for serious intellectual debate is nothing more than a call for didactic and patronizing writing. Instead of allowing editorialists to make complicated arguments in creative ways, Yoon wants us all to reject satire, wit and the fine traditions of Swift, Pope and Rabelais. Simply because he does...
"Exhibits in those days were natural warehouses," said Ed G. Haack, the Director of Exhibits at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. "Today, we want them to be didactic, inspiring." And they are inspiring. The captions in the cases read like a zoological Jenny Holzer: "Fossils are geological stopwatches....The isolation...
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...