Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sherburne and the current N.S.A. president, Rhodes Scholar Eugene Groves, 23, tried to dissuade Ramparts from printing the article. The CIA was not very happy either, and put heavy pressure on N.S.A. men to deny whatever the magazine published. Gene Groves refused, called a press conference and admitted all-adding that N.S.A.'s connection with CIA had been terminated. The State Department also issued a stiff little corroboration that N.S.A. had been subsidized since the early 1950s...
Bravely, Britain's Anthony Burgess, novelist (A Clockwork Orange) and Joyce scholar (Re Joyce), has threaded the labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...
...journal that traces the origins of that choice has long since disappeared. But in 1960, a grandniece of Flaubert's produced a copy that she had transcribed years before. This first English translation by Flaubert Scholar Francis Steegmuller makes it clear once more that even in his callow teens Flaubert was headed for literary greatness...
...ambivalences. And, the tendency over the years has been for the Master character to shove the Professor character off stage, to the regret of the latter. "I sometimes think I've scattered myself too thin," reflects Finley, who is now 63. Twenty-five years ago, he was a meticulous scholar. His three essays on Thucydides, soon to be republished as a book, are, says Glen W. Bowersock, assistant professor of Classics, "the most important articles on Thucydides in the last century." But Finley is now famous for his spirited performances in Humanities 2, where he has taught the first half...
Alice Childress, scholar-in-residence at East House, will speak on "The American Negro Playwright: Problems of Form and Content" at 7:15 p.m. tonight in Whitman living room...