Word: pedanticism
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Last week Andre Maurois, cosmopolite, suave veteran of literary teas, facile biographer (Ariel, la vie de Shelley) returned to Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Franç...
The Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in...
The philosophy underlying these opinions is no pedantic metaphysics, but an essential part of everyday existence. To Dewey the world is: 1) a thinking world; 2) an evolving world of experience. Philosophy is the intelligent vision which controls experience, shaping it to desire.
The nation is not so ready to accept the dictatorship of Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder...
In such strongholds of the "old" history as Harvard this work will be officially frowned upon. Not that it is inexact, or without an array of carefully marshalled factual material. But it is strange ambitious, novel. It is these things inspite of its precursors, men who have tried before to...