Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleges and universities in Greater Boston, probably none has a lower reputation among academics and intellectuals than does Calvin Coolidge College. For many years, the school's graduate division, which awarded higher degrees in return for relatively little work, was something of a scandal. Apparently the graduate division catered chiefly to public school teachers looking for an easy way to get the higher salaries that come to teachers with Ph.D's. Under a new dean, the graduate division was closed up in the mid-60's, but the school's reputation increased only slightly. Calvin Coolidge College is still completely...
...brush of scandal is tarring Wallace cronies with a charge that asphalt to patch Alabama roads costs the state $2,000,000 a year more than it ought to, with the implication that some of this money goes into Wallace campaign coffers. Claiming that it was unable to sell any of its asphalt to the state, the Waugh Asphalt Co. sued Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell, who manages Wallace's presidential campaign as well as state purchasing, along with 24 firms and state-appointed "sales agents." It charged them with rigging prices, promoting monopoly and breaking state and federal...
...reported home with the emphatic finding that Martel knew what he was talking about. But except for the arrest of Paques, SDECE took no steps that Washington could see to flush out the spies. De Vosjoli's superior at SDECE explained that France could not stand a major scandal at a time when it was just recovering from the Algerian war, but De Vosjoli suspected that "other, possibly sinister, forces were the real reason for the inaction." He leaves open to speculation whether it was inside work by Soviet agents, suspicion that the CIA was using the affair...
...strongly the opinion that Paul Tillich and religious liberals like him were traitors in the theological camp because they were trying to humanize something that is essentially nonhuman. They were trying to make Christianity less than a scandal, as Kierkegaard called it. Well, it is a scandal; it's obviously a scandal because our life is a scandal...
...Scandal. During the past few years, Ipswich has at last been taking over from Shillington as the prod to Updike's imagination, and his short stories have abandoned their boyhood themes and begun to examine the years of his maturity. Like Piet Hanema struggling to accept his God, Updike has suffered doubts...