Verbal methadone.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

"Nuance" is a word that crept into vogue about a decade ago. Since then it has flourished, like "ambiguity" and "dichotomy" during my college years, as a sign of the writer's intelligence. Too often it is used to suggest that there is something understood by the author but too complex for you to understand or him to explain in the limited space available. At the Monthly, we used to...