Pretension and Pomposity in Academe

By WILLIAM IAN MILLER

Role playing, performing our parts, is what we do; we can hardly blame one another for playing roles. Suppose, however, the role is flavored in such a way that the player can be described as pretentious. We all pretend, but that does not make us pretentious, or even pretenders in a bad sense, or in the way of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Pretension can take the form of adopting...

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