Word: pedanticism
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* R. Buckminster Fuller, the whiz engineer and architect who plans to change the world. His geodesic dome is the U.S. pavillion at Expo 67. Fuller was one of those seniors who had enlisted before Commencement in the Navy, where he served until 1919. One classmate described Fuller's mind as...
Its success is all the more remarkable because it is virtually plotless. A suburban husband (Walter Matthau) decides that the grass is greener and the lass keener in the other fellow's backyard. A colleague with a wandering eye (Robert Morse) nominates himself as Matthau's instructor in...
The problems the Glee Club encountered in Carter's Emblems were more the fault of the compose than of the performers. Carter takes a perverse delight in setting words in unnatural ways, distorting normal word and sentence rhythms. The music itself, after a pedantic first section, gets underway with a...
Wilder has always insisted that he is not a writer but a teacher. He is both, of course. The Eighth Day, his first novel in 18 years, combines his special gift for evoking what is warmly sentimental in the American character with his favorite notions about the universality of human...
Treasure Fund. Draped regally in a gold brocade gown, her hair piled high in a bun, Lili Kraus last week began the first lap of her Mozart marathon. In the opening Concerto No. 4, composed when Mozart was eleven, she unfolded the beguilingly simple melodies with a rippling grace and...