Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred for h is, as his Irish ancestors would say, a "grand guy." His good taste is always tinged with a humorous saltiness that seems to deal pretension a wallop. He is a native Brooklynite who doesn't hesitate to use the work "kid" but who is a recognized scholar in English, a playwright who isn't concerned with finding his own identity because he's too busy writing about those of his characters, a celebrity who laughs at the thought of being one. He is somewhat of a modern-day Mr. Bennet with his mixture of "quick parts, sarcastic...
Crook's plan, which is still in its earliest stage and could not begin before 1967, would cost approximately $50,000 to $*00,000. This money would be used in part to bring a "critic, scholar, or artist" to Harvard to create a museum exhibit. It would also pay for a summer program coordinator to work part time during the winter academic year and full-time during the summer...
...Piety based on error is indefensible," says Father John Lawrence McKenzie, and the error that he refers to is the fundamentalist misreading of Scripture. A witty and outspoken Jesuit scholar from Indiana, McKenzie considers it his right and duty to set his fellow churchmen straight about the Bible, which was not open to critical study by Roman Catholics until Pius XII encouraged it in his 1943 encyclical on Scriptural studies. In so doing, McKenzie, at 55, has become the nation's most controversial and quotable Catholic theologian-perhaps because there is all of a sudden so much...
Accuracy & Judgment. McKenzie's accuracy and sound judgment as a Biblical theologian have gained him the wholehearted respect of his Protestant peers. Last year he became the first Catholic scholar elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, and he is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the first Catholic to hold this post. Within his own church, however, McKenzie is something of a maverick. Other Jesuits consider him a loner, and he now prefers to seek teaching assignments outside his society's institutions. Next fall, after summer teaching...
Authority Is Love. "I know of no other U.S. Catholic scholar who loves the church more than McKenzie," says Jesuit Robert Fox, one of his old West Baden students. Not the world's most patient man, McKenzie frequently expresses this love by openly chastizing ecclesiastical persons and institutions that do not live up to his ideal of what Christianity ought to be. Of Rome, he says, half in jest: "It stinks. There are too many clergy there...