Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry A. Kissinger, LL.D., special assistant to President Nixon. A brilliant, articulate and remarkably productive scholar, and a distinguished public servant devoted to world peace and security...
...feels the need for help over styles, will find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly...
...this world of literary abundance, it is surprising to think that any man who has ever written anything would be left out. It is more than surprising to hear that a scholar who has studied natural science at the University of Edinburgh; history, law, and medicine in Moscow; biology in Berlin; and psychoanalysis in Vienna would have his many works excluded...
Behind their faith that dreams produced superior art, some Romantics pursued a corollary faith: that opium produced superior dreams. In a gracefully written, witty survey, British Scholar Alethea Hayter skeptically checks out a few case histories...
Heimert succeeds the late Perry Miller, the pre-eminent scholar in this field. Heimert said he was "not unmindful of the fact that the first man to hold this chair [miller] was the greatest student of American Literature...