Word: pedanticism
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We all learned the touchstones of the Civil Rights struggle throughout middle school and high school history classes: the steadfastness of Rosa Parks, the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many indignities that spurred non-violent protests throughout the South. But can anyone remember what was happening in...
Apparently there’s a growing marketfor failed, antique technology: last weekon eBay, a Betamax Player was on sale forabout $1300. That same day, there wereabsolutely no adult fi lms available forBetamax on eBay. The reason for this?No such fi lms exist.As few people know, the adult fi...
Long before the release of MacBook Air, John F. Kennedy ’40 said that “man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” Oh, how man has fallen. “The Age of American Unreason,” Susan Jacoby?...
In a characteristically proud and pedantic speech before Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi challenged his fellow politicians to vote him out publicly rather than cut deals behind closed doors. After the speech, Berlusconi ally Gianfranco Fini saw the speech as evidence that the battered Prime Minister was already starting to dust...
To be pedantic about it, that means a "significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." That's the semiofficial definition of a recession, courtesy of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private think tank that since 1929 has determined the start...