Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A deft satire about a rich New England college (which is curiously like a large industrial foundation) and a charming English scholar who can't get enough of the subsidized way of life...
...When we freshmen, back in 1919. saw Bill Douglas [Aug. 16], top senior student at Whitman College, stride the campus with his head toward the stars, we could say, "What a scholar...
Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he has been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College...
Last year the shabby White House library was redone in cozy 19th century style. Last week, after an "agonizing" year of culling, a scholar-studded committee, headed by Yale Librarian James T. Babb, produced an official book list -1,780 titles in 32 categories from art to sports, confined by the definition of the job to American authors...
Something New. A onetime Fulbright scholar (at Cornell) and Olympic track star, Bassetti studied at the London School of Economics and taught economics at Milan's Bocconi University before entering the family business when he was 26. He shocked his conservative relatives by setting up workers' councils to share in management decisions, took over the textile operation when his father retired in 1954. Since then he has shocked almost everybody. After winning a seat on the' city council, he pushed tax reform, tried to have Milan's trolley fares doubled to cover deficits. A Christian Democrat...