Word: pedanticism
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The voice speaks drily and deeply, and despite Eliot's accent, there are unmistakably American qualities in his speech: its slowness, precise, though not pedantic, and its American "--and--uh." You notice the Yankee in his talk when he reads the second part of "The Waste Land," Lines like:
Mr. Koestler's efforts at saving Western Civilization were about as purposeful as the Children's Crusades and not nearly as well organized. He explains in the preface to his book that what emerged from his study of the East is a "mixture of pedantic detail and sweeping generalizations." Written...
He had not really tried to look, said Eichmann's dry, pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The...
Rosemary and I are very pleased and flattered that you printed the photograph of our small city-state. However, I would like to mention that this was not our personal Christmas card, but one that we sent out in behalf of the Asthmatic Children Research Institute. Also, our fourth child...
Frustrated Journalist. Frankfurter, the immigrant boy, became in turn an attorney, a federal bureaucrat, professor of the Harvard Law School, supplier of legal brains (Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs") to the New Deal and a guest professor at Oxford before his 1939 appointment to the Supreme Court. Along with...