Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only these occasional questions for which he assumes the guise of professor. Essentially, Reischauer sees himself as a scholar, a scholar gone government, but a scholar nonetheless...
...sees no contradiction between these two roles, and insists, in fact there is little inherent difference between a professor and a government official. "If a scholar isn't enough of a realist to be able to serve the government, he isn't much of a scholar. And if an official doesn't have enough perspective, he won't be much of an official...
...Scholar-Diplomat...
This is the character of Bate's work. In the past seventy-five or one hundred years, professional learning has gathered up and arranged the facts for much of the humane discipline. The scholar too often finds himself able only to rehash old stories or, like Miss Ward, to go dangerously far out on a logical limb; rarely can be relate his learning to the constant problems of man-kind. For all its erudition and its technicality, all its grace and intelligence, the quality most to be valued in John Keats is that as biography it can, in Johnson...
Died. Louis MacNeice, 55, handsome Irish-born, sports-loving Greek scholar who, in the early 1930s, was briefly celebrated as one of the brash young Oxford poets, along with Auden, Spender and C. Day Lewis, who stood traditional English verse on its ear by mixing slang and sardonic wit, toff talk and tough thinking to comment on England between the wars; of pneumonia; in London. During World War II, MacNeice drifted away from poetry to become one of the BBC's top scriptwriters and producers; but his early verse, which he enjoyed writing "as one enjoys swimming or swearing...