Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ornate language which uncannily mimics nineteenth century prose also contributes to this distancing effect. Nailing down the antiquated style presented some difficulties; an Edinburgh scholar of the time period's nonfiction checked Phillips' manuscripts for anachronistic syntax. The language produces an almost surreally understated voice that allows Phillips to write about the horrors of slavery in a eerie, muted fashion. As he says, "you've got all these massive dramas going on--people living in the most unbelievable poverty, people being killed--and [Emily's] writing about it as if it's very polite after dinner conversation...
High-profile feminist scholar and University of Michigan law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, who was recently under consideration for a tenured position, did not get the required two-thirds majority vote from the faculty...
Harald Saetran, a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, says the mud, a sign of the changing seasons, is simply to be expected...
During this period, Clinton's religion found a dual expression, matching in some ways the tension in his personality between his populist leanings as an Elvis Presley-loving son of a small-town nurse and his intellectual elitism as a Rhodes scholar and full-time wonk. He developed an intense relationship with the Rev. W.O. Vaught of Immanuel Baptist, a biblical scholar known for his erudition, whose sermons were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental...
...seem like a blessed relief. Fiona Shaw's self-absorbed, unsympathetic portrayal makes Hedda ditso from the start: darting, distracted gestures, nervous facial tics and a voice that drops to an inaudible whisper about every third line. Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) is more engaging as the dissolute scholar who once loved her, but Deborah Warner's dark, eccentric production defeats...