Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wars of the Roses is actually a collective title for a massive melding of the three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI with Richard III. The inspiration for the production came from Stratford's brilliant young director, Peter Hall, 32, and his scholar in residence, former Cambridge Don John Barton, 34. Like even the most dedicated Shakespeareans, they were convinced that the old three-part Henry VI was too verbose, incoherent and confused to be staged effectively. At the same time, they saw in it an important unifying theme-what Director Hall calls "the dilemma of power...
...publication took the hint and, along with the Economist, sent Philby to the Middle East, where his father, St. John Philby, the famed Arab scholar, had spent years exploring the desert...
Balliol's current master, Sir David Lindsay Keir, is a legal scholar who maintains Jowett's old stress on under graduate minds and muscles via stiff classics, intimate tutorials, rugger and rowing. Graduate research is still rare at Balliol, but science is finally getting its head; of the 39 fellows, nine are scientists and mathematicians. The, others remain brilliant eminences in philosophy or Sanskrit-men like Theodore Tylor, tutor in jurisprudence and one of Britain's best bridge players, although he is almost blind...
...world of U.S. foundations is losing its wise, undisputed dean: Henry Allen Moe, 69, boss of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the past 37 years. A Rhodes scholar and an Oxford-trained lawyer, Minnesotan Moe gave "Guggie" fellowships the status of a U.S. intellectual knighthood, personally knighted some 5,000 artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly...
...Uphill Fight. How does one get to be a pre-eminent whiz kid? Alain Enthoven was born in Seattle, the son of a French mother and a British father with a Dutch name. He majored in economics at Stanford, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and, as a lanky 6-foot 4-incher, rowed No. 4 on the New College crew. As a mathematician and economist he spent four years with California's think factory, the Rand Corp., just pondering military strategy. And then, in 1960, he went to the Pentagon...