Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Strange McNamara, LL.D., U.S. Secretary of Defense. It is restorative to have a scholar at the Pentagon, a man who knows that force is coercion and that freedom is captivating...
Established in 1903 in'honor of Edwin Godkin, editor of the Nation, the lectures bring either a scholar or public leader to award each year to discuss the "essential of free government and the duties of the citizens." Lecturers in recent years included Nelson Rockefeller, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver...
Bigger Game. For a scholar and administrator, Rorimer revealed an unexpected flair for showmanship and a love for cloak-&-dagger art sleuthing. During World War II, he was decorated for ferreting out the caches where the Nazis had hidden their art loot, proudly boasted that he was the first Allied offi cer to enter the Louvre upon the liberation of Paris. As director of the Met, he relished prowling galleries for finds, made auction history when he bought Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for a record $2,300,000 with a wink. Last March he went...
...make a decision-I'm not twins," Pike explained. "I have been aware of an overextension of two roles: that of administrator and leader as bishop, and that of teacher-scholar." Last fall, tired by his double duties, Pike, who is now 53, took a six-month sabbatical, spent most of it studying at Cambridge University. There, he said, "I experienced the sheer joy of staying with something for more than a disconnected hour...
Died. James J. Rorimer, 60, art scholar and showman host to 7,000,000 visitors annually as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...