Word: polymathic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conviction that specialization is the besetting sin of our time. The program aims, he says, at "enabling the young to become better human beings and better citizens, not just better at some particular line of work." The goal is bold, perhaps Utopian and typical of this tireless polymath. Adler, 79, is an encyclopedist and organizer of knowledge whose Great Books (with Hutchins) and Great Ideas volumes set out simply, and comprehensively, to make the intellectual monuments of Western civilization available to any reader...
...Ambidextrous Universe, make physics lucid to the layman; The Annotated Alice has become the standard guide to Wonderland. In addition he has published exegeses on poetry as diverse as The Ancient Mariner and Casey at the Bat. Yet no matter how wide he ranges, one subject has preoccupied the polymath since he began writing 35 years ago: the dangers and delights of pseudo science...
...Polymath with a preoccupation, debunked the E.S.P. experiments of J.B. Rhine, who ingenuously wondered why his subjects did better when he paid them...