Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EUGENE ONEGIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. Novelist-Scholar Nabokov has translated Alexander Pushkin's 19th century novel-in-verse with accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original than any previous version. By contrast, his volumes of notes show Nabokov as an obsessive genius in action-a side of himself that he kidded in his brilliant academic satire, Pale Fire...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A day in the life of Rhodes Scholar Winston J. Churchill Jr. (no kin) from North Wales, Pa., one of the many students who have studied, over the years, at Oxford University under the scholarship program set up before his death in 1902 by the South African financier-statesman Cecil Rhodes. Repeat...
EUGENE ONEGIN, translation and commentary in four volumes by Vladimir Nabokov. Polylingual, and a poet in his own right, Novelist-Scholar Nabokov (Pale Fire) has translated Alexander Pushkin's remarkable 19th century novel-in-verse with a sense of accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original Russian than any previous version. Nabokov's supplementary volumes of notes provide the amusing, exasperating and always impressive sight of a crusty literary personality in action...
...school, mired for centuries in rote teaching of the Koran, is already in the midst of a thriving renaissance. Mamoun's predecessor, Sheikh Mahmoud Chaltout, a leading scholar of the Koran who died in December, opened a school of commerce, made the study of English compulsory, revised the medieval law curriculum, established a separate college for girls. The government built an ultramodern "City of Islamic Missions" where Al Azhar's 3,600 foreign students, including six Americans, live in national dormitories with their own kitchens and common rooms...
...often little-read group of literary periodicals-tend to remain small because they appeal to limited audiences. Yet one of the newer little magazines shows promise of surprising growth. It is the eight-year-old Tulane Drama Review, in which Editor Richard Schechner, a Tulane University Ph.D., combines a scholar's skill with the insight and pugnacity of a first-rate journalist. Since taking over two years ago, he has increased the stature of T.D.R. enough that the American National Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA's 4,800 members...