Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eduardo Mondlane was a revolution ary, and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) he headed was one of black Africa's more effective independence movements. Tall, handsome Mondlane was also a scholar who loved the bookish academic world he abandoned just six years ago, and it is clear that his enemies knew their man all too well. Last week an expertly built bomb killed him as he worked at an American friend's villa' in Dar es Salaam. The bomb had come to him concealed in a book...
...surely prove to have been one of the most difficult in the history of higher education in America though possibly there were years comparable in difficulty, on a minor scale, in the 1830's. Unpleasant, demanding, and accusatory attitudes were in evidence on many campuses. The sobriety of the scholar and the would-be scholar, celebrated in all previous ages, seemed simply to vanish. In some places the spirit of reasonableness, and the desire to achieve understanding with common courtesy, traditional hallmarks of the academic life, were actually sneered at and condemned. In many places discontent flared and strong passions...
...formidable composure. His powers of concentration are legendary, his manner ineradicably professorial. His pewter grey hair is parted down the middle. His brown eyes squint slightly through rimless glasses. His voice is somewhat reedy, worn to didactic evenness by 40 years of lecturing. "I regard myself primarily as a scholar interested in government," he says, teeth clenching one of the hundred or more pipes he owns...
Died. The Rev. Dominique Pire, 58, beneficent Belgian priest whose efforts to resettle war refugees won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium. A Dominican scholar, Father Pire taught moral philosophy at the Huy monastery until World War II, when he served as chaplain to the Belgian underground. After the war, he traveled 250,000 miles to find foster homes for some 160,000 displaced persons; established seven refugee villages across Europe. In accepting the Nobel Prize, he reminded the world of Newton's sad observation that "men build too many walls...
...earliest possible time, this Committee should consult with the President concerning the appointment, possibly as a University Professor, of a distinguished scholar deeply concerned with Afro-American Studies and identified with the black American experience and community. The person appointed to this Professorship should be invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Afro-American Studies Committee...