Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...This] is an honoring of a man who has shown great commitment to the community," said Jerome T. Murphy, dean of the Graduate School of Education. "He's wonderful combination of a scholar and a teacher who is deeply connected to the issues in the real world...
...feminist/political trap because as an artist, she remains fascinated by subversiveness, avoiding a man-evil, woman-good dichotomy. The poet is interested, instead, in the duality of the individual, and especially the female, self. She articulates this well in "The Loneliness of the Military Historian," describing a female scholar's fascination with the "masculine...
...most entertaining opera in the repertury. Rooted in the French graud opera tradition, Gounod did not attempt to infuse his opera with social realism, as did both Verdi and Puccini in different ways and with equally lachrymose results. Faust is unapologetically fantastic; it is the familiar story of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and the love of Marguerite, a chaste beauty. Gounod's music is as extravagant and emotional as the story demands, but the emotion is produced through charming melodies and dazzling orchestration rather than mere central...
...into a place like that.' I didn't even finish high school.... I like to read and I like to think, but I'm not really an academic," she says, "[It's] strange because I have khakis and a knapsack. I look like I should be a scholar but I'm not. It's sort of a new age nerdism look...