Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar's activities should have relevance to the immediate future of our civilization...
...poll of the Senior Album several years ago showed that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston performances (including one midnight show...
...tall, slim, lofty-browed scholar, Hume Wrong was born in Toronto 52 years ago, was brought up by his historian-father George Wrong in the British tradition. He studied at the University of Toronto and Oxford, served in the British Army in World War I (the Canadians rejected him because of a childhood injury to his left eye), then taught modern history at Toronto for six years before joining the Department of External Affairs (U.S. equivalent: State Department) in 1927. He had served in Washington, Geneva and London before becoming Associate Under Secretary in Ottawa...
...London, to the High Commissionership vacated six months ago by retired Vincent Massey, went shy, brainy Norman Alexander Robertson, 42. He was a Rhodes Scholar at 19, then taught at the University of British Columbia and at Harvard before joining the Department in 1929. Since 1941 he has been its Under Secretary. His specialty: trade and economics...
Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 51-year-old scholar-gypsy of the intelligentsia whose "novel" of suburban sex life (Memoirs of Hecate County) has been a scandalous success, got dug into himself by Manhattan tabloids. Court records showed that he had been successfully sued last March for separation by Wife No. 3: left-wing gypsy authoress Mary McCarthy, whose scandalous storybook, The Company She Keeps, included one called Cruel and Barbarous Treatment. Said she, she had received "abusive treatment" from Critic Wilson, cited the time he had kicked her out of bed. She said she complained the following morning...