Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In one respect, Ethel went Bobby one better?or worse, as the case may be. The word "neutral" had no meaning for her, as applied to the Kennedys. If people were not for her, then they were against her and she against them. Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Bobby once...
On the funeral train that carried the casket from New York to Washington, she refused to remain closeted in the family car. Ignoring a friend's urging to go back, she stepped into a car full of Washington friends and officials. After kissing or shaking hands with everyone there, she...
The reason for the popularity of the new degree, says George Smith, assistant dean of the University of Buffalo Law School, is simply "instant status"; a J.D. has learned nothing that an old LL.B. didn't know. Most schools have made the J.D. available retroactively to any alumnus who...
A monk without a monastery, Erasmus was free to travel. On visits to England, he found close friends in Sir Thomas More, John Colet and other noted English humanists. In Italy, he learned Greek, published an extensive anthology of ancient Adages, and was appalled at the wars of Pope Julius...
The antibody molecule is a protein, made up of chains of amino acids, of which there are 20 varieties. In 31 years of detailed work, the Edelman team learned by chemical and physical analysis that this particular molecule contains 19,996 atoms (of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur) grouped...