Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHALLENGE OF MODERNISATION, by I. R. Sinai. An Israeli scholar argues that democratic ideals and Western aid will be largely wasted on underdeveloped countries until ruthless, single-minded leaders overcome their nations' psychological inertia and modernize their social structure toward the future economic "takeoff" point when they can begin to make realistic use of the West's largesse and technology...
...Slight Ache lasts longer but makes its point quicker and clearer. Edward and Flora, a husband and wife, are enjoying a sunlit view of their country-house garden. He (Henderson Forsythe) is a scholar of distant cultures. She (Frances Sternhagen) is a busy suburban bee. Edward is obsessively irked by a human blight just beyond the garden, an aged, decrepit match-seller who haunts the forsaken site from dawn to dusk with no prospect of selling matches. Edward invites the old man into the house to have it out with him. The matchseller looks like a cross between a Skid...
Natural Habitat. Bowen's durable predecessor, Rhodes Scholar Virgil M. Hancher, has kept Iowa in the front rank of state universities. The Iowa City campus is home for some of the most adventuresome minds in science and the arts: Physicist James Van Allen, Psychologist Wendell Johnson, Printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, Paul Engle's famed Writers' Workshop. The library, medical and law schools are among the best in the U.S. But Hancher is a corporation lawyer by training and cautious by instinct. "He tended to protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, David Boroff, an associate professor of English, said that Harvard nevertheless qualified as a university where such intellectuals "flourish." "Scholar-gypsies who follow not the curriculum but their own intellectual bent" also thrive at Columbia, Berkeley, Wisconsin, and N.Y.U., Boroff reported...
Anderson the scholar implies that they wouldn't. In his chapter on the private developer, he says that free enterprise naturally builds where building is profitable. Urban renewal construction is potentially quite profitable, but it usually involves a high degree of risk. "It seems likely," he sums up, "that what has been accomplished so far by private enterprise in urban renewal has been largely a result of the government's decision to underwrite a substantial amount of the risk involved." One can only conclude that the author of the second book hasn't followed the arguments of the first...