Word: pedanticism
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At the same time, to be fair. I do not see how we could have had much success. Had we sought to broaden Harvard, we might have succeeded at most in institutionalizing a trivial and pedantic approach to the fields of knowledge that mattered most to us. There were few...
The symbolic scenes are generally purely so, with no link to existence within the major plot. Action and dialogue on the surface tend to seem pedantic, existing for thematic purpose alone and turning the film into a nihilist morality play. When Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who...
The new conservative editors vary in approach from the scholarly, even pedantic, to the strident or downright offensive. The label conservative seems to embrace as many viewpoints on campus as in society at large, ranging from Jeffersonian calls for states' and individuals' rights to Moral Majority attacks on...
What is more, it must gingerly be said, sung live, their politics almost seem to make sense. Not that you necessarily agree with them, but at least you learn to respect them. For while they will surely be spouting Marxist slogans until the day they die. Gill and King don...
In the two decades spanning World War II and Viet Nam, when juvenile delinquency had acquired a status halfway between fear and fad, Hollywood looked to rationalize the action of teen offenders for an audience of their peers. They Live by Night (1949), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), even Bonnie...