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In The Times, critic David Kipen hailed Pynchon’s classic style as “Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Monuments remain a critical part of Alexander’s polymathic life.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

The polymathic Foss was a skilled and wide-ranging conductor, but he thought of himself primarily as a composer.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022

He lambasted the polymathic Bertrand Russell and Marxian philosopher Herbert Marcuse — darlings of liberal social activists — as “the Abbott and Costello of political philosophy.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Smil, who has taught at the University of Manitoba for half a century, rests his expertise on the strength of a polymathic pedigree nearly unmatched in North American academic life.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022