Word: pedanticism
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The men fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was...
Even though his show is all chatter and records, Rudy insists that he is no disc jockey. "It's just an opportunity for me to bring up provocative things in show business," he explains. "It discusses why some people are successful and some are not -originally, I wanted to...
The Coming Defeat of Communism has its share of jarring notes; ex-Marxist Burnham can be too pedantic and doctrinaire, sometimes sounds too pleased with his own conspiratorial cunning. Perhaps his most hopeful and least convincing thesis lies in his book's eye-catching title. He argues that it...
*Those celebrating the new century as of Jan. 1, 1900 were looked down upon by many well-informed citizens who pointed out that there had been no year Zero A.D.; therefore the 20th Century could not begin until Jan. 1, 1901. (Actually, the pedantic insistence on Jan. 1, 1901 has...
Bernard Shaw this week warned foreigners visiting Britain to speak broken English: "Even among English people, to speak too well is a pedantic affectation. In a foreigner it is something worse than an affectation. It is an insult to the native who cannot understand his own language when it is...