Word: topicalism
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...scene in "Annie Hall" when Woody Allen's character, Alvy, is standing in line with Annie (played by Diane Keaton) to see a film. Behind the couple is an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual (who we later find out is a professor at Columbia) mindlessly nattering on and on about every topic imaginable. The professor's knowledge knows no bounds: we are subjected first to criticism of Federico Fellini's oeuvre, then to a savage diatribe against Samuel Beckett. Names are dropped with impunity, including that of media theorist Marshall McLuhan...
...William Belden Noble Lectures were established in 1898 by Nannie Yulee Noble in memory of her husband, a divinity student. Speakers deliver a course of lectures on a topic of general Christian interest...
...leave the post-game analysis to my colleagues on the sports page, but suffice it to say that playoff baseball--and the death-grip it holds on the imagination of otherwise reasonable people--is a topic of concern even outside the sports community...
...rest of the year, Harvard's role in the international arena will probably be a hot topic. Rudenstine says that his travels this summer to the Far East gave him "a renewed sense of how crucial the international agenda" would be for Harvard...
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