Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eminent 19th-century translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, whose unrelenting Englishness (read: priggishness) has been a scourge to modern translators from Nabokov on. Fashioned by Durang as a kind of Charles Kinbote for the entire Western cannon, Garnett is as much a mangler of Russian literature as a scholar of it. (The Russian word for frustrated homosexual is Peter Tchaikovsky, she says). Played with unrelenting and downright hysterical formality by Thomas Derrah, Garnett becomes as loveable as she is overbearing. Listening to her roll her r's is worth the price of admission...
...already been honored with the "Swede" Nelson Award, given annually to the top football scholar-athlete in New England, and was a first-team All-Ivy selection for the third straight year...
Boston University (B.U.) Professor of Political Science Emeritus Murray B. Levin '48, a member of the Quincy House Senior Common Room and a scholar-activist, died last Wednesday of heart problems...
...Scholar and an Activist...
...wonderful appointment for Harvard...a terrific scholar-activist," Murphy says...