Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trustee boards, on cultural committees, on the speaking circuit--and indeed he is on all of these. When he comes to Harvard he can speak merely of what he did the previous day and attract a good sized audience. And yet he is neither a distinguished statesman, a respected scholar, nor an entertainment celebrity. David Olgivy has become a success selling soap, margarine, gasoline, and underarm deodorant...
...Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns, figs and raw oatmeal. Last year she visited Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, played Mozart and Bach for him every night for five weeks; he spent his last days listening to her recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In February, she will become an artist in residence at Texas Christian University...
Orthodox Jews, of course, are generally the stern and unbending champions of an almost literal approach to Halakah. "On it and on it alone," says Halakah Scholar Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz of Jerusalem, "we base our lives, our thoughts and our actions." "Without Halakah," Israeli Author Abraham Kariv told a Jerusalem symposium on Halakah last week, "we do not know how to believe, let alone how to express our faith in everyday life." The Orthodox regard any watering down of Halakah as "the Gallup-poll approach to Judaism"-making the law conform to practice and thus, for example, permitting the eating...
...attend New York University, for example, and N.Y.U.'s Kastner suggests that a kid from a New York slum could more than cover the cost in this way: $800 from a federal Educational Opportunity Grant; $1,000 in an NDSL loan; $500 from New York State's Scholar Incentive program: $400 in earnings from a part-time job; $300 earned in work during the summer...
Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday that the appointment of "so highly regarded a scholar has created a great deal of excitement in the Harvard political community...