Word: orientalistes
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...denominational boundaries in Scriptural scholarship, and that at least a few of today's translators would not have been out of place on King James's team. Biblical experts of all faiths have particularly high praise for the crisp, idiomatic rendering of Genesis (see box) by Orientalist Speiser, a Polish-born Jew who knew not a word of English until he was 18. The publishers plan to issue the Anchor Bible in 38 volumes (price: between $5 and $7 each) at the rate of six a year, until 1970. Says Editor Freedman: "We want to have...
...funny. "This is a free-running colt," he said. "He can beat any horse in the country." As if to prove it, he urged Quadrangle into the lead at the start, then eased up. Other horses pounded past: California's Hill Rise (2 to 1) and long-shot Orientalist (42 to 1) dueled for the lead; Quadrangle slipped back to fourth, and Northern Dancer was running fifth. Suddenly, Orientalist began to bear out from the rail. "I saw that big hole," said Ycaza, "and I said to myself, 'You can steal this race.' " In a wink, Quadrangle...
...giant has never really wavered from President Harper's original aim: grown-up teaching and research. In "schizoid" Midwest fashion, as Orientalist John A. Wilson put it not long ago, Chicagoans "pound on our chests and proclaim fiercely that we are the corn belt or the pivotal center of the country or the home of American nationalism or the 'hog butcher of the world.' Yet secretly we long to out-Harvard Harvard, to out-Oxford Oxford, and to out-Sorbonne the Sorbonne as a citadel of pure intellectuality...
...titles to his credit, including a seven-volume history of Christianity from its beginnings until World War I. Historian Latourette is also that academic rarity-a specialist in two separate fields. Rivaling his fame as a chronicler of Christianity is his reputation as a leading Orientalist: he has written four books on China, including one of the standard U.S. undergraduate texts on the country's history and culture...
...Need for God. In The Light and the Dark Lewis continues to suffer, but from the sidelines. The setting is Cambridge, where, in the '30s, Lewis has become an academic cog. The central figure is Roy Calvert-a brilliant, rich, erratically humored young Orientalist who is decoding an ancient language called Early Soghdian. The first crisis is whether Calvert is to be elected a fellow of the college. In one of those vendettas of common room and high table that no one describes with more authoritative relish than C. P. Snow, Calvert squeaks through. But Roy is prey...