Word: pedanticism
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Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A...
People are out there in the land of Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe...
First, as a general observation, I think that your sampling techniques, whatever they are, should be revised to yield a more representative sample of student opinion. Second, your sampling procedures should be explained in a preface to the Guide, so that its users can assess the degree of confidence they...
In the longest story, "The Dawn in Erewhon," the hero, a Dutch philosopher, Adriaan van Hovendaal, who apparently actually exists, says, "Man has a history rather than a nature." And this story is Davenport's most comprehensive attempt to present that idea. But here the author fails, partially because he...
In the intermediate category, The Best's Best French Cookbook is the 20th century's Great Book of French Cuisine by Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Francophiles know better. Le plus meilleur livre is the 19th century The Physiology of Taste by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, with entries on the erotic...