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donnish Adjective resembling a university don; pedantic or fussy
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Roy Vagelos, Chairs Regeneron A donnish CEO Merck & Co. Because it deals so fundamentally with the war between head and heart, ``Arcadia'' requires a tricky trade-off between clever ideas and gut-level gags, between Stoppard's donnish speculations and the metaphysical clowning for which he's both celebrated and, occasionally, faulted. If Nixon wanted his post-Watergate years to be remembered as those in which he had at last put his old jealousies and machinations behind him--and by most accounts he very much wanted to be seen as a donnish elder statesman, not a bitter, muttering old pol--Crowley has significantly undercut her mentor's wishes. |
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