Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might even fit into the picture as player-coach. Next year's Ivy League championship game could feature a head-to-head shoving match between Galbraith and Columbia's other-worldly flake, 7-0 Dave Newmark. We've been told (and George Plympton should know) that the Canadian-born scholar is quite a mover. Fast big men are hard to find...
...result has been that many students go to person one is. He tends to be less of a pure scholar than his predecessor, and because it was relatively easier for him to get to college (despite comparatively more stringent admissions requirements), he is less likely to be docile about his education...
Burton gets little chance to display his acting. Instead of watching the deterioration of a gentleman and a scholar, we are treated to a tedious string of ghouls and black magic, hot and voluptuous women--all of which loses any excitement after the first half-hour...
...week with the publication of the third book about Philby so far this year: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, by three Sunday Times reporters who followed Philby's tracks for nearly a year, going back to examine his strained relations with his father (an explorer and Arabic scholar) and his record at Westminster public school and Cambridge. Author Cyril Connolly, the Earl of Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month...
Before the end of the century, predicts Sanford, "the most prestigious colleges will forbid their professors to publish until they have been on the faculty five or even ten years." The only exception, he suggests, should be publication by television, in which a scholar "who has something important to say goes before cameras to say it in plain language to the general public...