Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finley was honored for being "Scholar; House Master extraordinary; for nearly forty years the humanities at Harvard have been enlivened by his bouyant and vital spirit...
Harvard's system for making permanent Faculty appointments provides for an evaluation of prospective faculty members by an "ad hoc" committee, selected by the Dean an composed of the Dean, the President, the chairman of the recommending Department, a Harvard scholar from a related field, and two or three scholars in that field from another insinuation...
...present-day writer seems likely to succeed at smashing the "Fitz-Omar cult," it is Robert Graves. At 72, he is established as a leading British poet, an adroit translator and an iconoclastic critic and scholar. He does not read Persian, but worked from an annotated crib prepared for him by Persian Poet Omar Ali-Shah, who claims that the manuscript has been in his family for 800 years. Yet this new Rubaiyyat suffers from Graves's apparent inability to decide whether he was writing more as a translator or as a poet. He may well have failed...
Identifying causes of Cunningham's recent increase in status (other than the fickle heart of the crowd and the waywardness of any vogue) is difficult. Every modern dance viewer is a scholar. Each knows what is and isnot dance even if he has seen little or no purely modern dance. Cunningham, once the depth of the is not, suddenly rises to be the big is. Perhaps his success may be connected with the vociferous dance critic's unending need to exclaim. More probably, the times have simply caught up with Cunningham...
...Academic freedom can be taken for granted at many places besides Harvard, and technology--microfilm, the airplane--makes it less urgent for a scholar to live near the most established centers of scholarship...