Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urgency to teach everything to every student that it permits little opportunity for development by the faculty of presentations with distinctive personality and philosophy. An occasional lecture here, seminar there, does not engender the kind of teaching experience which brings the students to sit at the feet of the scholar, nor does it stimulate the teacher to mull over, reconsider his facts and premises, view his special area from all sides and interrelate his cherished intellectual offspring with other currents of contemporary thinking. In short, our present system does not provide those features which can make teaching the greatest...
...groom was Captain Harold Macmillan, a Grenadier Guard, Old Etonian and classical scholar of Balliol, who would almost certainly never have written a book about himself (the family publishes, but does not write) had he not also, by the laws of the British invention called natural selection, become Prime Minister...
...idea of a rabbi who plays detective on the side is just different enough to offer possibilities to a competent writer who knows all about rabbis. Harry Kemelman, 57, makes the most of the possibilities. He is a Talmudic scholar who never seemed to be getting anywhere composing thoughtful essays on comparative religion. A few years ago he switched to popular fiction, invented a rabbinical sleuth named David Small, of Barnard's Crossing, Mass., and turned Friday the Rabbi Slept Late into a bestseller. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman's second book, has become a bestseller...
...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...