Word: pedanticism
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Reed wages constant war against what Northrop Frye calls "the lumber of stereotypes, fossilized beliefs, superstitious terrors, crank theories, pedantic dogmatisms, oppressive fashions and all other things that impede the free movement of society." He refuses to use buzz-words or catch-phrases with the easy eloquence of a critic...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared...
Bok transfered portfolio responsibilities to the Harvard Management Corporation and the University's extensive land holdings to Harvard Real Estate, Inc.--thus avoiding the pedantic details of daily management.
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up...
In 2 hr. 12 min. of conversation--a full hour more than he had scheduled --Gorbachev showed himself well informed, urbane, energetic, tough, witty and above all in possession of a disciplined intellect. He reflected most elements of the traditional Soviet hard line, but not in the familiar pedantic Soviet...