Word: digressional
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In her effort to show how the patriarchal system has placed a series of contradictory demands on women--viewing them at once as the all-giving earth mother, the chaste, swooning virgin and the corrupting whore--Rich careens into a long historical digression that verges on the paranoic. This is...
This analysis, combined with Itard's step-by-step techniques, makes for a comprehensive and instructive study, particularly for those interested in language development and behavioral psychology. The Wild Boy of Aveyron ends, however, with a lengthy digression on the inspiration Itard's work provided for later educators--from the...
Not to be dull or bourgeois, Hills wants to argue against this kind of behavior, in a useful and up-to-date way. Lying, cheating, stealing--especially when personal gain is involved--these are the vices he has in mind when he talks about immorality. (There is a chapter on...
The only such FBI incident of meddling in political affairs cited in the Eisenhower years, this was no more than an un solicited digression by Hoover.
My experiences as a gay student at Harvard are rather difficult to express since my acquaintance with Harvard is only weeks old. So if I may be granted a digression I will talk more about my undergraduate institution and being gay in general.