Word: scholar
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...writing and teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how we depict them in our own through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim...
Among academics who study voting rights, Guinier's writing is generally held in high regard. "She's the best legal scholar working in voting rights today," says Professor Kathryn Abrams of Cornell law school. "In a scholarly sense, I don't consider her outside the mainstream." That assessment is more strenuously debated in wider legal circles. Says Stuart Taylor Jr. of Legal Times, who has studied Guinier's writings: "She's more radical than her supporters would have you believe. Her proposals seem to be premised on a bleak vision of America as a land of 'subjugated minorities...
...enjoy [summer school]," says Hare, a Long Island native who is an Outstanding Achievement Award for Negroes scholar, and plans attend Stanford University in the fall. "But I knew of some problems over the summer. Every Black guy who was dressed nicely and was carrying a briefcase was accused of being Jean Baptiste." Baptiste, who is Black, was convicted in 1991 of rapidly two male Harvard summer school students...
...unquestionably the office of a professor, with its academic in-jokes, student tributes, cluttered files and all, and its occupant is both the expected scholar and something else: the matchbox-collecting activist...
Cambridge is a comfortable place for a gay couple, he says, and Harvard is without doubt a comfortable place for a scholar. Warren Goldfarb is not likely to move anytime soon