Word: polysyllabicism
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The Age of the Scholar is certainly not an easy book to read. It consists of a selection of speeches Pusey has made as President of Harvard, chronologically arranged. Pusey's speech-writing style, particularly in the early speeches is, at the least, difficult. The writing improves in some of...
Murray Burns (Jason Robards Jr.) has quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize...
Dismayed I am, however, that the author found such unrelieved monosyllabic expressions being voiced by Santas, shopkeepers and civilians as "Ooops!" "Oof!" "Ho! Ho! Ho!" "Bah!" and even "Aughh!" I wonder if TIME'S reporter paused long enough in any store to listen for a seasonal "Excuse me, please...
Operetta may be instant opera, but Gilbert and Sullivan still demands voices. In this predominantly British company, the voices are not only superior, they are clearly intelligible. As Mabel, the perky fiancee of Frederic, the dutiful pirate's apprentice, Marion Studholme pours lyric intensity into Poor Wandering One to...
But last week he opened the White House gates to an economic philosophy of another hue when he chose his chairman of the influential three-man Council of Economic Advisers. The chairman: Walter Wolfgang Heller, 45, a smiling, polysyllabic professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, who ranks among...