Word: polysyllabicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it...
There is no love element to confuse the plot--"Billy Budd" has an all-male cast. But there are other distractions, apart from the distilled characters of Billy and Claggart. The early dialogue contains too many quick jumps from the humblest prose to polysyllabic poetry, and the first act is...