Word: didacticism
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In many ways, the U.S. was lucky to have Hull as Secretary of State in the prewar years. Though a Wilsonian liberal, he had the respect of the nation's conservatives. He helped swing national opinion from isolationism to internationalism. But like his mentor Wilson, he was too didactic...
But since an allegory is ultimately didactic, its ending not only concludes the story, but culminates the argument. It cannot, for instance, and in purely personal tragedy. Golding does a better job ending this book than he did with, Lord of the Flies, which relied on a deus ex machina...
A year or two later I had become acquainted with D.T. Siel, then Plumbing Director of the University. From that time, each day was filled with what were to me fresh ideas on plumbing and exciting inspirations to go on learning about sanitation. Associating with Siel was not so much...
Brecht was never more didactic than in a series of one act plays he wrote in 1930. As vitriolic propaganda pieces they are good for young actors to sharpen their teeth on, but in 1964 a Marxist diatribe is pretty obvious and plenty dull.
One danger in editing a magazine of this sort is a strident and didactic tone, and Forum is not entirely free of such writing. Almost every article contains at least an attack on public apathy, or an appeal to public consciousness; often such rhetoric is necessary, but it can become...