Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory of the late scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
Cabell came closer to the era than Fitzgerald, for his symbolism grew out of America's new awareness of sex. His audience ranked him with Poe, Whitman, and Twain. He was an institution, property of campus esoterics; and a legend--a mysterious collector of medieval lore, a scholar in "forbidden topics," a familiar in strange compacts with the devil--and, wrote Carl Van Doren, a rumored participator in "misdemeanors not so spiritual...
...When a scholar has finished mining his Ph.D. from a library or laboratory, he is likely to be repaid almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor...
...Scholar Kerr continued to teach and write learned articles during his term as chancellor, optimistically plans to do the same as president. One activity he has abandoned for the moment: sandlot athletics with his children (Clark, 15, Alexander, 12, Caroline, 6) and neighbor kids, halted when he broke a tibia recently in a soccer game. He is up at 6 a.m. on working days, commutes from one campus to another by plane, sometimes takes a grocery carton full of documents home at night...
...rehearsals, where Menuhin turned up in cinnamon-colored shorts, the full spirit of dedication remained. "Bravo for the pizzicato!" Casals would cry, while through the door peered the Casals cultists: thick-spectacled German music masters, a pony tail from Paris, a pair of combs from Catalonia, a Fulbright scholar, a darkly gowned queen (Elisabeth of Belgium)-all hushed to silence in the presence of the eternal creative mystery...