Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week British Judaism was split by its worst schism ever-over whether it should adapt to modern life or reject it for the sake of Israel's carefully nourished beliefs. Cause of the schism is the modern-minded theological outlook of Dr. Louis Jacobs, 43, a Biblical scholar who between 1954 and 1960 was rabbi of the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, a traditional center of worship for many Anglo-Jewish families. Although he is Orthodox in practice, Jacobs has long shocked his bearded rabbinical colleagues in the Orthodox-controlled United Synagogue, Britain's largest Jewish...
Died. Hamilton Basso, 59, journalist-novelist, a gentlemanly scholar from New Orleans who exiled himself to Connecticut in 1944, but kept trying to go home again with leisurely re-creations of the South's social distinctions, ancestor worship and tribal customs (from lynching to channel bass fishing), most successfully in his 1954 bestseller, The View from Pompey's Head; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal state as its leaders could conceive and find agreement on." Such fine-grained history is certainly more for the scholar than for most general readers. Yet Powell's style is clear, if sometimes too sugary, and the people and events can be absorbing...
What makes a man a scholar-his ability to turn out monographs liberally besprinkled with footnotes, or his ability to inspire in his students his own curiosity and love of learning...
Pusey's comments came in his address to the testimonial dinner honoring David E. Owen, retiring Master of Winthrop House. He cited Master Owen as an example of the scholar who has served the concerns of the undergraduate, both as an instructor and as Master of an upperclass House...