Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after all, the knowledge that there will still be a world tomorrow, in which to apply what scholars discover and invent today, that is the single most important motivation for the scholar's continued existence. It scandalizes Harvard that members of its faculty greet Powell not with the respect and gratitude he deserves for his role in securing the peace we enjoy today, but rather with egotistical, shrill demands for a change in policy which, realistically, he cannot support...
Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem said Booms was a "mature and extremely pleasant student who was a superb scholar...a courageous young woman, who, even when she was ill, continued in her studies and house life, and never complained...
...well-known University of Washington scholar and translator of modern Japanese literature from the University of Washington in Seattle will join Harvard's faculty in September, alleviating a partial shortage of Japanese literature specialists in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC...
...clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain, the golden boy sat back in a car and inhaled carbon monoxide until his heart stopped...
...like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...