Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences with. Says the professor: "When I say, 'Well, that...
...approach to research ("I always put different topics on different colored pages. If I haven't a pink paper, I take a white paper and write 'PINK' on the top"). As a teacher she inspired a generation of girls with a love of history, as a scholar added considerably to what is known as the story of the British Empire, as an administrator was largely responsible for the college's exacting honors program...
...distinguished American scholar* has only recently counseled us that in the measurable future, if present trends continue, the states are sure to degenerate into powerless satellites of the national Government in Washington," said the President. "I believe deeply in states' rights. I believe that the preservation of our states as vigorous, powerful governmental units is essential to permanent individual freedom and the growth of our national strength. But it is idle to champion states' rights without upholding states' responsibilities as well...
Citation: "One who could never say with Shakespeare's Duke of Kent, 'I am too old to learn,' he is still alertly learning at the age of 90. For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading...
Citation: "Having played a major role in world events of the last quarter century, he has devoted his genius to record them with the scholar's insight and the philosopher's wisdom...