Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told them. "Reach out and take it. Do you want to go to school? Well, go!" Too old at 20 for Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were married...
...murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven by conscience, he turned himself in to the Allies...
...Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted 50,000 ants...
Bell is well known for his books The New American Right (1955), Work and its Discontents (1956), The End of Ideology (1960), and The Radical Right (1963). He is also a member of the editorial boards of Daedalus and The American Scholar...
...links fact and implication with little more than pure faith. One of her sternest critics, Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris, says dryly: "The courage of one's convictions is a blessing with which Mead has been liberally endowed." She permits few ripostes. When attacking the wrongheadedness of a fellow scholar, says a cowed friend, "she is truly like one of those terrible Indian goddesses, standing on her victims with her tongue sticking...