Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, Alfred E. Stearns, Fuess's predecessor at Andover, was anything but a "dryasdust pedant... At times he displayed a fiery temper, and on at least two occasions peremptorily 'fired' an instructor in anger, only to repent and apologize before sunset. Sometimes he made enemies by the stout fashion in which he spoke out, but the boys liked his ... strong convictions ... He continually stressed . . . moral issues; and like Thomas Arnold he was more interested in forming character than in producing scholars...
...examiners, plays to perfection the man who refuses to worry about anyone's opinion but his own. In the difficult role of a girl who keeps falling in & out of love (and bed), Jeanne Grain displays both intelligence and charm. Hume Cronyn's crabbed and envious pedant is relieved by flashes of grade A academic humor, while Finlay Currie, who threw a chill into moviegoers as the convict in Great Expectations, manages to be very funny in his set piece explaining how he became a murderer...
...readers might miss. Furthermore, there are only polished performances to be found in the whole production. Ian Keith, as one would expect, has captured the whimsical brooding which Armado requires; Hurd Hatfield as the witty and poetic Biron is just that; Jerry Kilty as the King is a perfect pedant; and the beautiful Jan Farrand is a beguiling Rosaline. Albert Duclos', Thayer David's, and Fred Gwynn's character portrayals are outstanding...
Ryan called Mather a "pedant" whom the priest believed was "unqualified to be presented at the banquet." "However competent this man may be as a geologist," he continued, "he lacks any concept whatsoever of the evil forces that are engulfing the world and bringing suffering and death to tens and thousands of American kids in Korea...
...syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from...