Word: didacticism
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Pounding away at the facts, his voice rarely rising, Browning made his points in excruciating detail. The contrast with Bailey, 42, could not have been greater. They were even physical opposites: Browning, standing 6 ft. l½ in., bustling around the courtroom and wrestling with charts; Bailey, 5 ft. 7...
Daredevil Risks. His talent won Wilder three Pulitzer Prizes for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Key (1927) and for his plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942). But his gifts-the polished style, the scholarly allusions, the slightly didactic plots with an elegant touch...
Sweet Piety. The three Gorkys form a triptych of commentary upon each other observed at different ages. Without being didactic, Tesich manages to touch on several things worth thinking about. He says that survival is mandatory and compromise may be its price. Only the living can change a society, never...
In an evening that is a dance of delight, and thanks to Director Peter Wood an astute lesson in the choreography of thought, there is only one segment that falters with a portentous sobriety. At the beginning of Act II, Lenin's long monologue with its didactic fervor disrupts...
Lichtenstein's prints are like medieval Christian didactic panels. They communicate instantly. Their iconography is easily recognizable, their meaning concentrated and abstracted. It is this element of caricature--caricature achieved by reducing something to its most essential and distinctive elements--that Lichtenstein is trying to isolate, detach and analyse.