Word: mircea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIRCEA ELIADE, 59, Rumanian Orthodox, professor of the history of religions and the world's leading authority on ancient mythology (TIME, Feb. 11). "I teach," says Rumanian-born Eliade, "without any theological implications, and they accept it here." >NATHAN SCOTT, 40, Episcopalian, professor of theology and literature. A Detroit Negro educated at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Scott did a stint of teaching at Howard before going to Chicago in 1955. His books include studies on Camus and Beckett...
...tourist in India, the magician's rope trick is merely another clever demonstration that the hand is quicker than the eye. To Professor Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago divinity school, the fakir's fakery is the vestige of an ancient religious rite with highly symbolic overtones: the rope is an image of the "astral cord," symbolizing the link between earth and sky, man and heaven. Originally, the trick was intended to prove to spectators the existence of an unknown and mysterious world; by climbing the rope and then temporarily disappearing, the conjurer revealed the possibility...
Others include Mathematician Marshall Stone, son of the late Chief Justice, and Arabist Marshall Hodgson, author of The Assassins. James Redfield, son of the founder, is a classicist with a bent for cultural anthropology. Mircea Eliade is a professor of the history of religions, a Jungian psychologist, a novelist in Rumanian, and the envy of his students for being able to "drink whisky all night and never drop a line of conversation...
...addition: C. Crane Brinton low in Dunster House; Preston K. and Sholem Postel, assistant directors of the University Health Services, John C. Wells, Jr., physician to the University Health Services; Mircea research fellow in Physics on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; and Tonis, Security Officer and Chief of University Police