Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved prophetic last week when the Russians announced that Barghoorn, 52, longtime chairman of Yale's Russian studies program, was under arrest for "espionage." Then, as suddenly as it began, Moscow called off its seemingly pointless exercise. After being held in a Moscow prison for 16 days, the scholar was released and expelled from Russia...
Other speakers at the meetings were the Rev. William Howard Melish, a personal friend of DuBois, and Herbert Aptheker, an authority on Negro history, a Marxist scholar and the recipient of all DuBois' personal papers...
...Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
...relief figures carved in red clay on a tile background. In the "Virgin Spring," the distorted angles and sharp indentations of the man's face suggest his cruelty; the girl's expression seems both fearful and frightening. The even ridges in the forehead, beard, and robe of "The Scholar" contribute to the peaceful mood of this work...
Even in context the passage is hard to understand. And yet, unfortunately, many reviewers never went farther than obvious criticisms of style. Had they looked beyond the prose, they would have found that Age of the Scholar says many important things...