Word: expounder
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...particularly enjoyed Dilip Gaonkar's presentation on the problems of losing the object-domain in cultural studies--this is a mistake Harvard is prone to make, given the tendency in the social sciences to lose touch with reality and expound in one's theories," he said in an e-mail message...
...GAIRY, 75, brutal and bizarre Premier of Grenada from 1967 to 1979; in Grand Anse, Grenada. A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice. He terrorized his opponents with his henchmen, the Mongoose Gang; traveled to the U.N. to expound on UFOs; and once visited London to judge a Miss World contest (the winner, no surprise, was Miss Grenada...
Professors highlight important aspects of the cases in class either through the Socratic Method or through the panel system. Under the Socratic Method, a professor calls on a student to state the background facts of the dispute and expound upon the legal reasoning and significance of the case. (Professors can be harsh and unyielding when utilizing the Socratic Method--see The Paper Chase--but most current Harvard Law professors are more easy-going and sympathetic...
...writer responds, "Actually, you know I wrote my thesis on life experience," and starts to expound on it before being told to shut...
...glossy admissions and fundraising brochures the university produces in such high quantities. It is fair to expect that the president discuss not only diversity's theoretical value but the actual challenges a university faces in making it a meaningful and real component of student life. It is fine to expound on the intellectual implications of diversity in higher education, but without a corresponding commitment to promoting diversity after admission, this becomes an empty rhetorical exercise...