07-13-2004, 08:00 PM
In honour of "Nashville" being the new radio single, I looked this up:
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"Autodidact" was the Word of the Day for Tuesday September 14, 1999
autodidact \o-toh-DY-dakt\, noun:
a person who is self-taught.
"To me this Harvard graduate seemed strangely uneducated (what on earth had they taught him there?), sounding like one of those autodidacts who used to roam around Greenwich Village spouting... conspiratorial theories."
--"Enemies, a Love Story," New York Times, February 21, 1999
" As ever, this great autodidact [Yeats] was immersed in those arcane magical studies which, for all their silliness, fed his imagination and his writings."
--"A poetic life in letters," Irish Times, October 11, 1997
"Though deeply read in many literatures, fluent in French and Spanish and delightedly learned in less expected areas such as antiques, horticulture and the rag trade, Pritchett, like many good writers, is an autodidact."
--"A Century of Stories," New York Times, March 24, 1991
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"Autodidact" was the Word of the Day for Tuesday September 14, 1999
autodidact \o-toh-DY-dakt\, noun:
a person who is self-taught.
"To me this Harvard graduate seemed strangely uneducated (what on earth had they taught him there?), sounding like one of those autodidacts who used to roam around Greenwich Village spouting... conspiratorial theories."
--"Enemies, a Love Story," New York Times, February 21, 1999
" As ever, this great autodidact [Yeats] was immersed in those arcane magical studies which, for all their silliness, fed his imagination and his writings."
--"A poetic life in letters," Irish Times, October 11, 1997
"Though deeply read in many literatures, fluent in French and Spanish and delightedly learned in less expected areas such as antiques, horticulture and the rag trade, Pritchett, like many good writers, is an autodidact."
--"A Century of Stories," New York Times, March 24, 1991