Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ezra Pound, Idaho-born expatriate poet, scholar and cantankerous crackpot, opponent of "the God-damned system that makes one war after another," arrived in Washington to be tried for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Italy). "Does anyone have the faintest idea what I actually said in Rome?" he asked. "Get over the idea that I betrayed anybody...
Transcendent military genius, scholar, historian, statesman, our much beloved Colonel has counseled our legislators, our executives, our admirals, our generals in a most wise and kindly manner. Always humble, modest and self-effacing, he has never boasted of his own great learning and accomplishments. Yet upon his guidance has rested the safety and the greatness of our country. He, and he alone brought victory for America...
Edward Kennard Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, emeritus, died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon at the age of 73. One of Harvard's best known, most honored, and best liked professors, Professor Rand was an internationally renowned classical scholar...
...never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie á la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that...
...BLACK ROSE - Thomas B. Costain - Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor...