Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, a new army landed on the coast of Fukien Province (about halfway between Shanghai and Hong Kong).It was a pathetic puppet army, and its generalissimo was a poet, scholar, gentleman, politician, anything but a fighter-Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei. The Japanese said it was made up of 50,000 Chinese who love the New Order. Its name, which only the Japanese could have devised: The Peace and National Reconstruction Army...
Hazelton Spencer is a scholar who knows how to write human English without being indecently "popular." His book is a summary and evaluation of the known facts and of the more sound, or persistent, interpretations, on Shakespeare, his life, his medium, his work, what it means - and doesn't mean - and how it is acted. Where there are no facts he makes no effort to invent any. His own remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed...
...amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned soldier, served for the last year of the Boer...
...apparent, not without a certain apprehension," says Hopkins. "The Nieman Fellowships were a new departure in academic procedure and no one knew how newspapermen would adjust themselves to life at Harvard, nor how wide might be the gap between the points of view of journalist and scholar...
...entrusted the delicate job of giving its prospects the news without scaring them irrevocably off the high seas indulges in no huffing & puffing, no pedantics, just tells it straight, like any well-informed guy reassuringly named Elmer. But 50-year-old, Indiana-born Elmer Davis, a onetime Rhodes Scholar, star of a booming decade (1914-24) on the New York Times, fictioneer and political pundit, has much more than a safe-&-sane, down-home twang. In his ten years on the Times he rose swiftly from cub to something approaching an Elder Statesman, writing editorials, roving Europe, handling extra-special...