Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the conference determined to stick by the traditional three-mile limit, first suggested by a Dutch scholar back in 1703 when that distance was about the maximum range of a cannon. Though cannon range is no longer a criterion, the U.S. still has powerful reasons for not wanting to see nations stretch their territorial claims farther and thus shrink by hundreds of thousands of miles the great body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier...
...Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, who prides himself on his knowledge of foreign aid problems, well knew that a low-rate foreign loan or grant usually has security or political implications that play no part in U.S. domestic affairs. Snapped New Jersey Republican Clifford Case: "If it is impossible for the people of the U.S. to understand the reason for loans at lower interest rates to foreign countries . . . then indeed the security...
...pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he is a coldly brilliant scholar who graduated from Paris' famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 20, won fame as an anthropologist by a series of notable books on the Incas and Aztecs. Soustelle's travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist-won him the youthful nickname of Jacques...
Real ability still often must take second place to good fellowship. The difficulty lies with the fact that there is no common agreement concerning in what merit consists. Academic standing is not always consulted, and often the glib conversationalist will be elected over the serious scholar. Many members are more concerned with keeping certain people out than with who gets in. The election meetings are charged with a snobbery and viciousness that many Final Clubs would be hard pressed to emulate...
Harvard professors usually earn their position and achieve eminence as scholars and not teachers. Sometimes the brilliant scholar is also a vivid lecturer, but too often students are subjected to mediocre presentations of material easily available in textbooks...