Word: pedanticism
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A community of intellectual giants is not always sweetly harmonious, and over the years there has been less interchange of ideas than the Institute would have liked. The young mathematicians talk mainly to each other, probably because no one else can understand them. Older continental scholars frown at younger types...
"I am always called a 'constructivist,' " says Naum Gabo, now 75, "as if I were a kind of pedantic engineer on the borders of art." As a dazzling year-long European retrospective of Gabo's sculptures, drawings and paintings drew to a close in London last week...
Getting into Lowell House just might be worth the trouble of dashing off a letter of preference to Dean Monro. Hospitable but not closing, intellectual but not pedantic, relaxing but not dull, and spirited but not rahrah, Lowell is an exceedingly comfortable and pleasant home base, and has enough certified...
But the people who put on plays at Harvard are a fairly homogeneous lot, and try as they might to avoid it, the editors found themselves the victims of in-groupitis. Reviews ranged from the spectacularly pedantic to the embarrassingly personal. Old friends and violent enemies reviewed each other. Junior...
THE VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and...