Word: pedanticism
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The noble art of penmanship, one of the highest artistic expressions of civilized humanity, has been suffering a gradual decline over the last few thousand years. First came the adoption of a standardized alphabet by the pedantic ancients. Then there was the invention of the printing press, by the notorious...
Your Sept. 3 issue on Israeli Scientist Zarchin defines nudnik as a "pedantic fusspot." There are many delicate shades of meaning in the word, and TIME'S definition may well fall within its subtle nuances, but I have always been brought up to think of and to use the...
Even in a country that is forced to dream Zarchin had trouble peddling his plan. After arriving in Palestine in 1947, the pale little man patiently trotted from ministry to ministry, haunting anterooms and grabbing coat sleeves. Desperately he fired off letters to Premier Ben-Gurion that were answered by...
Israel's volatile, visionary Premier and his painstaking, cautious and pedantic Foreign Minister have persistently irritated each other since the day when Sharett shivered and Ben-Gurion bubbled at the prospect of proclaiming a new Jewish state. Since then Sharett, who took time last week even in the middle...
Poor, pedantic schoolmarms! The language vehicle to them is more precious than the freight it carries. Their small world consists in parsing a sentence.