Word: dilettantish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year certainly, perhaps the next five years, will be a time of testing for the program. Revisions may have to be made, for some of the present seminars may never escape beyond a desultory pursuit of some dilettantish goal, whereas others may be too specialized (for example those on sunspots or German historical thinking since 1945) and encourage freshmen to enter a cozy academic niche prematurely...
Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...them was Francisco Fernandez, boss of the majority party in Congress, the Revolutionary Action Party (PAR), which elected President Jacobo Arbenz. PAR is moderately leftish, and "Paco" Fernandez is supposed to be no worse than a dilettantish fellow traveler...