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...Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1986, Wolf had planned to write about the theme of beauty in literature. The Beauty Myth began taking shape when she heard someone remark that she had won the scholarship because of her looks. Says Wolf: "I had an image of the documents I had presented to the committee -- my essay, a book of poems I had written, letters of recommendation -- and the whole of it being swept away by that one sentence." Once she learned that other female Rhodes scholars had had similar tales told about them, she developed a new theme: that discussions...
...article in the recent Atlantic Monthly Dinesh D'Souza writes of the difficult issues confronting the evolving concept of a liberal education. D'Souza presents a case study of Duke University, and, in a discussion of Black scholars, quotes heavily from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--the Afro-Am scholar who is leaving Duke to come to Harvard next semester. D'Souza writes...
Brilliant scholar. Talented administrator. Fine intellectual. And good with people...
Oxford University, B.A. 1959 (Rhodes scholar...
Describing Heimert's academic work, Bacon says the Cabot professor of American Literature is "a scholar enraptured by his subjects," who include Lincoln, Jonathan Edwards and Herman Melville. Bacon says Heimert is a strong advocate of public service, calling him "radically committed to helping the underprivileged...