Re: Didactics and Akademe

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 10:19 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>

> Brian
> His obsequious obscurities was hardly a climacteric disquisition.
>
> Herb Gottlieb from New York City
> (Where flowery language is often replaced with short meaningless one-word
> sentences such as ....  "Duh." 
Though Herb may discount it in his sentence of mixed singularity,
 a 'climacteric disquisition' is not a bad way of putting it: 
 the word 'climacteric' can mean not just critical but rather  
'occurring at a period of life (45-60) at which vital force begins 
to decline'.
Yep, he got THAT right!   :-)

All the same, it's a reminder that it's a really bad idea to try out 
poetic prose in this arena, and to describe such a reasonable
proposal too!  ...that one's good students may become academic icons, 
but one's best students may become iconoclasts of the received wisdom.

Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK