Word: didacticism
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Educational TV does not always deserve an A-plus. There are still plenty of dull didactic hours on all its stations, and N.E.T. supplies only ten hours of new programming a week, partly acquired from the BBC and other foreign producers but generally produced by the network itself and its...
2. The poets' chief rhetorical opposites (and enemies), who make one wonder if discussion can really be a profitable exercise, delegate to represent them here two famous didactic lcturers. The first, Ambassador Valerian Zorin, explains how U.S. activity in the U.N. has (as is well known) hindered the efforts of...
GERALD BURNS is a Harvard senior, living in Adams House; he has studied with Archibald Macleish. His play, The Prophet, was first produced in Agassiz Theatre as an HDC Workshop on May 11, 1960. Of his play and others, Mr. Burns says, "The Prophet is largely a physical experiment in...
The tone now prevails throughout the British Isles. Most of the new British poets seem more mental than emotional, more likely to lapse into prose than to burst into song. But Ireland's Thomas Kinsella, a 33-year-old clerk in the Civil Service, who scribbles verses in his...
Chris Hobson, who plays a Brechtian sage and narrator whom Gardner has rather artificially grafted on to his plot, is properly stilted, abstract, and didactic, but he seems totally out of place. This role should be cut.