Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Sussex will get 21-year-old Eileen Janes, a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Brandeis University. Scholar Janes is getting her M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, wants to earn her doctorate in 19th century English history at Sussex, because it has the finest professor in her field. Pomona Senior David Drabkin, who has already spent a semester in India studying economic development, is also headed for Sussex to study international relations...
John Willis, 24, the first Negro Marshall scholar, will study medieval African history. To tap it, Willis has learned classical Arabic at Boston University, will aim for a Ph.D. at the University of London, which he calls "the best school in the world for African studies." Stan ford's Tom Grey might well be the prototype Marshall scholar. He went to Exeter, where he edited the Exonian, won a National Merit scholarship to Stanford. A veteran of Stanford-in-Germany, he earned a junior-year Phi Beta Kappa key, is an honors student in philosophy. No athlete, Grey...
...itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with mystical elements from pagan religions of the East. Published last week was the first English translation of one of the most important Nag Hammadi documents-The Gospel of Philip (Harper & Row; $3.75), edited and annotated by British Scholar Robert McL. Wilson...
...Fuss. Last week Kodak paid public reverence to all three. In Manhattan, President William Scott Vaughn, 60, a mathematician and onetime Rhodes scholar, announced that "George Eastman's idea was to 'make a camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film...
...Stone is indeed a first novel. After that, heaven help the reader if he tries to play it straight. For The Second Stone is booby-trapped at every turn of the narrative with tricky bits from the complicated and ingenious philosophical apparatus of Leslie Fiedler, who is a critic, scholar and professor of English at Montana State University...