Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accuse Senator Fulbright of a "blind spot" in not accepting the myth of a monolithic-belligerent Communist bloc is to reveal your own. That Communist doctrine is neither monolithic nor necessarily nor always belligerent is no longer an opinion. It's a fact! I know of no reputable scholar who would argue otherwise...
...last semester had a Roman Catholic teaching at its divinity school: Carmelite Father Roland Murphy, an Old Testament expert from Catholic University. Harvard's divinity school has had a chair of Catholic studies since 1958; currently, the professorship is held by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie* is on the staff of the University of Chicago divinity school. Last summer the divinity school of Vanderbilt University created its own chair of Catholic studies...
...rare blend of soldier-scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
Gentle Reminder. The following day could only have added to Fulbright's frustration. After the soldier-scholar came the scholarly statesman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. In a 50-page opening statement that filched 43 minutes of air time from camera-covetous committee members, Rusk argued in dry, dispassionate terms that the entire structure of world peace is endangered by the Communist threat to South Viet Nam. "What we are seeking to achieve," he said, "is part of a process that has continued for a long time-a process of preventing the expansion of Communist domination...
...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...