Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schulman, who has been studying disarmament theories among scholars in Moscow for the past three weeks, was accused by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia last Saturday of attempting to brainwash and blackmail a Soviet scholar at Harvard in 1964 into defecting to the United States. Schulman denied the charges...
Although Moslem women in such countries as Tunisia and Lebanon are clamoring for equality, Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
Arrowsmith's colleagues charge that he is himself a living refutation of his own theories. A topflight scholar who has translated Euripides, Petronius and Aristophanes, he also co-edits a classical quarterly called Arion, and is editing books of Greek comedies and of Nietzsche's writings. None of his students find that this work has made Bill Arrowsmith either inhumane or dull...
...Strategies of Development" by Mrs. Sonia S. Gold, formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at Carnegie Institute of Technology, will be presneted by East House at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Cabot Hall Living Room, 100 Walker Street. The public is invited. Mrs. Gold is this year's Scholar-In-Residence at Radcliffe...
...C.I.A. and the Defense Department will still need research data, and will continue to commission academic projects to obtain the information they want. But the National Foundation for the Social Sciences can provide an alternative source of government funds for the scholar who feels he cannot work for such agencies without compromising his academic integrity or his good name...