Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between corporate assignments, Fortas labored with intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to broaden the definition of legal insanity in the light of psychiatric knowledge, a decision that is still reverberating through the courts. In 1962, the Supreme Court picked him to appeal the celebrated Gideon case; he argued brilliantly and induced the court to rule that...
Died. Eugene Leonard Burdick, 46, bestselling novelist and University of California political science professor, a former Rhodes scholar who methodically ground out Cassandra-like tales of political science fiction (The Ugly American and its forthcoming sequel, Sarkhan, both written with William J. Lederer; Fail-Safe, written with Harvey Wheeler; and The 480); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in San Diego...
Contemptuous Enclave. The Finzi-Continis are proud, pretentious, cultivated Jews, living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family...
VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Another exhumation from the graveyard of TV pilot shows that died at birth, The Barbara Rush Show introduces a mother of three who supports her med-scholar husband by working as a public stenographer...
...ever did while president of Harvard." To succeed Dr. Berry, President Nathan M. Pusey has recruited Dr. Robert Higgins Ebert, 50, from the determinedly progressive medical faculty of Western Reserve. Son of a physician and brother of another, Minneapolis-born Dean Ebert (A.B., Chicago, '36; Rhodes scholar and D. Phil., Oxford, '39; M.D., Chicago, '42) now has one of the most difficult assignments a medical man can have: being...