Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automation, which runs from the crudest idea to the most dazzling concept of the sophisticated mind. In the Detroit Public Library, book procurement is speeded up by sending boys whizzing down the 250-ft.-long stacks on roller skates. On the other hand, scientists dream that one day a scholar will be able to quiz a regional computer by telephone from his office; whereupon the answer, perhaps from a paper by a foreign colleague, will bounce off an orbiting communications satellite first into a simultaneous translator and then on to the scholar's TV screen...
Died. William Clyde DeVane, 67, longtime dean of Yale College (1938-63), a brilliant English scholar (Browning, Tennyson) and teacher who battled for the maintenance of a strong liberal arts curriculum in the face of a mounting tide of "fierce specialization," was hailed for his 1945 reorganization plan (intensified honors, divisional majors) that served as the model for many other U.S. colleges; of heart disease; in Greensboro...
...night before I was to join the novitiate, I quit. The Jesuits have been thanking God ever since." And later: "It is absurd in this part of the 20th century that the Ecumenical Council has no translation system such as the United Nations has. I am no scholar, I never earned a degree. And when I go to the Council I don't know what in the name of God is going on." Why, cried one member of the Texas State Society of Washington, D.C., "this is just like a campaign down home with everybody out howdyin...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...
...European jongleur and minnesinger have their parallel in the Japanese hanashika, whose tongues have wagged incessantly for some 800 years. Diplomat-Scholar Post Wheeler, who was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for six years, determined to safeguard the huge literary and oral tradition of the hanashika, spent 25 years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold...