Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tensed Muscle." Phillips, an Anglican minister who resigned from his London parish in 1955, found the Old Testament much tougher going than the New, which was written in free and easy colloquial Greek that is akin in spirit to modern English. No Hebrew scholar, he discovered that almost every letter was a "tensed muscle" and that the style of the Old Testament possessed a "monolithic grandeur," requiring a language "which is both dignified and authoritative...
Visitors sense this cult, too--partly because the museum displays three portraits of Mrs. Gardner. In one she appears veiled and quiet--the scholar, the patron of the arts. In another painting across the same room, Mrs. Gardner seems about to sweep forward, her arms gracefully extended...
People who regard the University as a bastion of visual philistmism may be pleased to learn that Barbara Swan, for the past two years an Associate Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, has opened a one woman show at Boston's leading gallery...
...this "second stage" in the academic life cycle, Hughes declared, the scholar has reached his goals, and finds himself "washed up on the beach of tenure, with no idea what to do next...
...cannot market his personality, the scholar can devote himself to "the cult of tidying up," answering phone calls in the office and writing the endless letters of recommendation which, Hughes confided, "represent a serious drain on one's stock of adjectives...