Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month's death of a Chinese scholar visiting at the Harvard Institute for International Development was the result of drowning, a spokesperson for Suffolk Country Medical Examiner Dr. Leonard Apkins said Thursday...
Contemporary English fiction is becoming incestuous. The intricate, clever construction of Black Dogs calls to mind works like Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, which is written backwards. The form of the novel clearly betrays the influence of Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, in which a literary scholar hides from the failure of his marriage in his obsession with Flaubert. Amis, Barnes and McEwan are close friends. The three friends inspire and rival one another. The form of Black Dogs echoes the smart, complex, but often self-conscious tone of McEwan's literary circle...
...scholarship and the pursuit of truth were valued above the feel-good campus politics of militant minorities. If white males are the leading thinkers in a field--as they are in almost every real academic discipline--we should read their work, and not the token work of some sloppy scholar who just happens to be a woman, a Black or a Latino (or all of the above...
...also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...
...America's prestige and hundreds of thousands of troops had been committed and the President had made clear he would go ahead with or without that approval. And since then there has been no talk of asking Congress's approval for further adventures in Somalia and Bosnia. As legal scholar John Hart Ely explains in a forthcoming book on this subject, restoring the war power is no special favor to the Legislative Branch. "The legislative surrender was a self-interested one: accountability is pretty frightening stuff." It's been too easy for members of Congress to play the hindsight game...