Word: ingenuitiesã
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...commentators almost universally saw it as a bad thing, but there might be something to be said for steering clear of the cavalcade of facts and (occasionally) half-baked opinions found in newspapers.The British cleric and essayist John Henry Newman, for one, despised the “parti-colored ingenuities?? and “reckless originality of thought” that periodical literature seems to engender. He saw the continual arrival of deadlines as a type of “cruel slavery,” driving writers to reduce everything to “nutshell truths...
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