Word: scholar
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Although Nietzsche's writings are often disturbing (that, after all, was the point), his supposed "Nazi legacy" was effectively discredited a few decades ago by eminent Nietzsche scholar and prolific translator, Walter Kaufmann. Indeed., Nietzsche detested the German Reich and once boasted, "I am having all anti-Semites shot." Significantly, Nietzsche's "Supermen" were not anti-intellectual warmongers (read: Hitler), but rather the great community of artists and philosophers of the future...
...historian, for example could know the complete history of every officer above the rank of major that fought in the civil War; but aside from impressing people at cocktail parties, this historian could easily have an entirely unremarkable career as a Civil War scholar unless he could apply this knowledge to come up with an interesting evaluation of the events he is studying...
...scientist, or sociologist? Is it an encyclopedic memory of all the details in one's field, which could be spit back at will? Knowledge of facts may help you get a job, but would it make you truly great? Most people would say no, as even the most mediocre scholar could look up the details of his trade in seconds. And as Albert Einstein has said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Clinton has the intelligence to conduct an effective foreign policy, and he did not come to the presidency unfamiliar with the wider world. He studied at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and later at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and was once on the staff of J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a quick study, and when he does focus -- as when preparing to meet foreign leaders, for which he crams like a student facing a tough exam -- can be quite impressive. But he rarely does focus that way. He gets...
...look for the best scholar we can find," the department chair says...