Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sayre denied that there is any necessary connection between good teaching and publishing. To expect one man to inspire his students, be an analyst, a dramatist and a scholar all at once breeds only mediocrity, he maintained...
...Managers. Founder Mellon required all applicants to have undergraduate degrees in math, science or engineering. Master's students get a basic two-year dose of law, economics, politics, psychology, sociology, statistics and writing, plus more math and science. The goal, says Dean Richard M. Cyert, 40, a top scholar of statistical sampling,' is "men flexible enough to accept future challenges...
...Southern gentleman named John Crowe Ransom stood up in Manhattan to receive the 1964 National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...
...colleagues say of Revilo P. Oliver, professor of classics at the University of Illinois, that "his first name is his last name spelled backward because he doesn't know if he's coming or going."* A competent Latin and Greek scholar, Oliver is a national officer of the John Birch Society. In recent issues of American Opinion, the Birch magazine, he published, under the title "Marxmanship in Dallas," the most elaborate version yet of the diehard "plot" theory of the Kennedy assassination. The Communists executed the President, says Oliver, intending to blame ultrarightists and trigger "a domestic takeover...
...saves a child trapped on a precarious ledge by telling her, "God is up there with you. He won't let you fall." After that experience, the reporter enters theology school, but grows impatient with the academic routine. "I didn't come here to be a scholar," he says. Assigned to a large parish in Syracuse, where he calls himself "a man with something to sell," Peale clashes with board members about an advertising campaign ("Lost your gal? In a lurch? Don't panic, pal. Go to church."). Ere long, thanks to "God's most potent...