Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameraman, hunter, horseman, sailor, archer, painter, naturalist, fisherman, falconer. From a mind as chockablock as Merlyn's cottage-or his own-he could unlimber the rules of jousting, describe the nervous systems of fish, discourse on medieval cocktails (one favorite was called Father Whoresonne). He was the first scholar to translate a medieval Latin bestiary into English; he produced a minor classic on falconry (The Goshawk), wrote moving poetry...
...bright applicant, and even too much library pallor may arouse suspicion. In response to a Harvard Law School questionnaire on what it was looking for in graduates, a New York firm curtly replied, "Byron White." The name alone conjured up the improbable combination of football hero, Rhodes scholar and Supreme Court Justice...
...increase, v. an industry average of 3.5% , by pushing sales and by automating ground operations, revising flight schedules and working out economical maintenance. Sadler on weekends inspects American installations around the U.S. and, when he can, follows a Southerner's fancy for pheasant shooting and a scholar's interest in pre-Constantine Roman history...
...problem is, as suggested above, that the ambiguities involved in these parallels seriously limit them, and could easily lead even a careful scholar toward a pseudo-analytic approach to history. Hughes recounts, for example, how one of his students, studying the life of an armaments expert with pacifist tendencies, could not understand why the expert developed a crippling block against completing the military research he was involved in. "The solution lay right before him," Hughes says. "For the student had quite unwittingly run up against a classic case of inner conflict. His protagonist's technical and military pride were locked...
Interpreting this as a news report, 20th century Scholar Leslie Hotson, wrote a whole book to prove that the "mortal moon" referred to the defeat of the Armada-thus putting the date of the sonnets back...