Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pattern of Frankness. Little of what Rocky said was new. Some of it bore the stamp of Henry Kissinger, the international affairs scholar and Rockefeller adviser. What was surprising was that he should say anything so specific about Viet Nam at all. Yet it was a pattern of frankness that Rockefeller clearly intended to follow. As he talked privately with delegates, Rocky found face-to-face candor was making more friends than enemies...
...Harvard Summer School will present its second lecture in the Literary Series with Frank Kermode, English scholar and critic, 8:30 p.m. at Emerson Hall 105 tonight. Professor Daniel Seltzer will moderate; questions will be received from the audience...
...young Biblical scholar named W.A.R. Goodwin came to serve as pastor at Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church. Over the slow years of his pastorate, he walked much, looked long, thought constantly about the town's past and realized that behind the Victorian storefronts of the day there still survived the stubborn structure of the old town, along with a hard core of dilapidated but still sound colonial houses...
...Brown-cum-Mao. "I am less interested in 18th century radicalism than in 20th century radicalism," Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism due any partisan credo...
Messages from the media have bombarded Communicator Marshall McLuhan, 56, so rapidly that he hardly has time to translate them all into books. So he plans to publish a hot medium of his own - a newsletter called McLuhan's Dewline. Says the Canadian scholar-turned-guru: "It's going to be a distant-early-warning system to give advance notice to anyone who'll listen." Planned articles: "Love Thy Label as Thyself," "The End of the Muddle Class," and "The Executive as a Dropout." Should some disciples worry that McLuhan might label himself an ordinary editor...