Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speeding Scandal. This week, many of John Erskine's devoted associates gathered at Columbia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of what had come to be known, somewhat long-windedly, as Columbia's Colloquium on Important Books. The course had grown since Erskine left it to devote himself to writing after his novel, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, became a bestseller. It had been extended, via Columbia's humanities course, to all Columbia College students. The idea had traveled to the University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores...
This week, however, one man was missing from the anniversary dinner. Seventy-year-old John Erskine, who suffered a stroke last fall, was gravely ill at home. "A good teacher is so rare," he once wrote, "that the rumor of him spreads with the speed of scandal." After 30 years, with or without him, John Erskine's scandal was still going strong...
...history that Nevins has collected so far flows through Cabinet meetings and conventions, peace treaties and panics, big-business deals and back-room intrigue. It ranges from the inside story of the Black Sox scandal to a prominent doctor's recollections of Henry James, from Norman Thomas' story of the Socialist Party to the last days of President Harding, from the Wilson campaign of 1916 to the fabulous machinations of Tammany Boss Charles Francis Murphy...
...story follows the fortunes of two English families living on the Zulu veld in South Africa. The Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...
...outlining to the preparatory school student body his personal views on how to evaluate liberal arts colleges in general, Bender said: "I mention this only because this relatively minor college activity has in recent years become a major scandal which, in my opinion, threatens the integrity of American college education...