Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fall & Rise. Whatever it took, it was worth it. For the University of Chicago, once a renowned haven for brilliant teachers and bright scholars, had fallen into sad estate. The South Side area around the 125-acre campus had become Chicago's worst slum. The university was losing many of those brilliant teachers, and was becoming the school that no bright scholar should really want...
Babe is a winner of the Detur Award for high academic achievement and is a Harvard National Scholar. He is an editor of Comment, and won two drama prizes last year. He plans graduate study in English and a teaching career...
Ferris, one of the most respected preachers in the Episcopal Church today and currently a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological School in New York, explained that his chief consideration in turning down the Memorial Church pulpit had been his own job at Trinity Church, where he has served some 20 years. Also, however, he pointed out some of the dangers that he felt he would have encountered in an interdenominational and academic church community...
Frederick the Second-Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave...
...belonged to the Renaissance, and he lived the life of a Renaissance prince. If he had been born in that period, he might have dominated it, but in the 13th century individual ambition was kept in check by a strong church. Novelist Deiss, a rehabilitated public-relations man turned scholar, offers in this impressive biographical novel a solid, scrupulous recreation of Frederick's lifelong struggle to surmount his times...