Word: expositioneers
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The most single-minded and conservative of the three is the work of a modern Thomistic philosopher, Georgetown University's Germain Grisez. His hefty book, Abortion: The Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (Corpus, $12.50; paperback, $6.95), is chiefly valuable as a contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic...
Anderson's detailed readings can be brilliant, as in his exposition of Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." But for a man who keeps demanding context and more context, he seems remarkably provincial. He acts as if the disintegration of "communal ties" were a problem invented by 19th century...
Later, during lengthy interviews with MacGraw and her husband in Manhattan, Cronin was further impressed, as was Researcher Michele Whitney, by Ali's essential simplicity and lack of glitter, the Teddy bears she adores, the wonderful junk that she collects-such things as silver-and-gold fans inscribed "Souvenir...
With words too, one must go outside the frame of exposition in order to properly understand their limits and meanings. There are other forms of word-use as valuable as exposition that deal with different, not worthless, problems. Exposition is spoiled when it must strain to deal with every kind...
All too often, students are encouraged to read poetry as a puzzling form of prose to be elucidated by sweet exposition. Cataloguing the various senses of a character in Shakespeare can kill in glibness the possibility of understanding of his vision. Teach the Bible, but not because it is seventeenth...