Word: pedanticism
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Our Town's first act survives largely because of audience interest and trust in the Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts...
The magazine is worth its price for Starbuck alone, but there's more. John W. Loofbourow interviews the Poets' Theatre personified in an enlightening dialogue marred only by a pedantic reference to Latin drama in the Elizabethan universities. Of 21 or so drawings by Joyce Reopel, Kaffe Fassett, Zero Mostel...
This week the Review celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding by peddling a 28,000-copy issue featuring a long, intimate interview with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was obtained with an enterprise characteristic of Review's methods. Young (31) Editor George Plimpton introduced himself to Hemingway in the...
The hard-working graduate may be pedantic and methodical by necessity. Concurrently, the undergraduates in a particular conference course may provide stimulation and enthusiasm--they are less hampered in their approach. Bate suggests that this antithesis--routine vs. creativity--may be intensified in conference courses because they are attended by...
But Beer maintains that if the graduate's concern is with a "niggling, pedantic search for details," it is the department, rather than the student, which is at fault. "If you cast your net terribly wide" in accepting graduate students, he explains, you may well get graduates who are not...