Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ivan C. Karp's A Medicine Called Happiness tells part of the history of Hayyem Soloveichik, who is conspired against by his purposes and his father. The humor of the story comes both from Karp's odd eye for detail and from the picture of Hayyem's father, "the scholar," which Hyyam's oblique remarks create. When in the synagogue he is nudging his father to ask for money, he thinks, "I was faced with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn...
...Miss McKenna the finest actress to be seen anywhere on the stage today. Archibald MacLeish, in his brief but beautifully phrased introductory remarks, welcomed her back to Sanders, "where her voice still rings from last summer," and presented her not only as a great actress but also as a scholar. She began by mentioning Sanders as the site of "my own favorite performances of my own favorite part," and then commenced her readings of Irish poetry, interlarded with informal commentary...
...Christian times, "long before the English could read or write." "But," she added, "of course when they did learn finally, they produced a Shakspere." She pointed out that the Irish have always had poetry in the marrow of their bones. And this is true, from the most learned scholar to the lowliest illiterate--a characteristic the Irish share with the Japanese...
...York is fortunate to have her for still another month, in the title roles of Saint Joan and Hamlet, before she returns to her country--a great actress, scholar and musician, and a great human being...
Each Selections Committe, made up of six former Rhodes Scholars with a non-Scholar chairman, then invites the most promising candidates to appear before it in December for an interview. On the basis of this interview, it picks two candidates to represent the state before the District Committee, which covers six states. It is this committee, comprised of one representative from each of the States Selection Committees, which picks the four Scholars from the district...