Word: scholar
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...Oxford Companion to Music. On most of its 1,195 pages may be found other samples of wry humor, homely philosophy and unabashed propaganda as well as a welter of personalized information on the facts of musical life. Every word is the penchild of a sprightly 78-year-old scholar and popular educator named Percy A. Scholes (pronounced skoles...
Born in Leeds of middle-class parents with no interest in music, Scholar Scholes only waited to finish prep school before dedicating himself to life as a musical missionary. In the next years, he taught, lectured with the assistance of a cranky phonograph, compiled the first history of music on records (the Columbia History of Music), then got a job writing running program notes for the margins of player piano rolls so pedal pumpers could read about the music they were hearing as they heard...
Last Frontier? Poet-Novelist Franklin Folsom, a Rhodes scholar and onetime lettuce packer, may be just the agent to swell that number. He has illuminated his gloomy subject with literary style, and Exploring American Caves−with its scores of enchanting photographs and its bold plunge into virtually virgin writing territory−may prove to be classic cave literature. "Caves," proclaims Spelunker Folsom, "are, in a sense, the last frontier. [Those] who explore the underground night have yet to reach the end of even the best-known caverns in this country...
Coming at a time when Turkey is worried about Cyprus and courted by Russia, the resignation last week of Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu had international overtones. But Dr. Koprulu was specific: "My resignation has no connection with external problems." An Ottoman scholar and a member of a distinguished family (which produced several Grand Viziers), Koprulu, 66, had stepped down from the government for reasons that were even more fundamental than foreign policy: the growing instability of the country and its government...
Both men turned to the House system to make main points. Finley felt that the answer to the expansion problem lies in part with the delegation of more administrative responsibilities to the House faculty, since "the responsible scholar is the better scholar...