Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give the William James lectures. Dr. Oppenheimer is a confessed liar; he has admitted that he told a whole tissue of lies in a field in which the lives and safety of us all were concerned. He has violated the code of the gentleman and of the truth-seeking scholar. He has not repented. His ethical perceptions are not sensitive. He does not recognize the enormity of the thing that he did. The University has violated sound principles in giving him the cloak of its prestige. Robert H. Montgomery, LL.B...
Biographer Murry mercifully spares the readers a psychiatric treatise on the great dean, but the book does, with immense elaboration, spell out one of the saddest stories in literature. Few Americans read King Lear, and fewer still would read it if it existed only in Scholar Kittredge's famous notes. Middleton Murry's book is of that scholarly kind. Yet, readers who do not insist on a bland diet of print will be well rewarded by this study of a man of tragic genius...
...Scholar's Prince. What called Fra Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
...captains did put down their observations, and most of these have been carefully preserved and published. Then, in 1953, additional documents were discovered in the attic of an old house in St. Paul, Minn. Last week those papers were the subject of a lawsuit that had many a U.S. scholar, collector and librarian on edge...
Elder did not say, as reported, that a Group III man would make a better scholar and teacher than a Group I or II man. Rather, he said that the GSAS ought not invariably to prefer the Group I or II man, and that in a number of cases the lively and imaginative Group III man might turn out to be a better bet in the long...