Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born the son of a South Carolina Methodist preacher, once a Pulitzer scholar in journalism, for 18 years U.P. correspondent in Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews...
Marcel Dupré, 62, is one of the few men who has ever claimed to know all of the fat and formidable organ literature of Bach by heart. As a performer of Bach and other early masters, he has his rivals: in famed Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer and Princeton's Carl Weinrich. But Dupré is also a master of the moderns...
...scholar-soldier (he spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew) went on to military glory in World War II-in Ethiopia, where his raiders disrupted the Italian army, and in Burma, where his "Chindits" raided deep into Japanese-held territory. But Wingate and his beautiful young wife Lorna always dreamed of returning to Palestine...
After eight months of bickering with his home government, stooped, bearded Rustem Vambery resigned as Hungarian minister to the U.S. The son of a famed orientalist, green-eyed, 76-year-old Rustem Vambery is a scholar of international standing. As judge, politician and professor of criminology, he had opposed Bela Kun's Communists and Horthy's Fascists with equal vigor in Hungary. He had lectured in England, was on intimate terms with Britain's royal family. Since 1938 he had lived in the U.S., teaching at New York's New School for Social Research...
...Casey calls himself "an ex-scholar," but he still teaches. Almost every undergraduate takes "Casey's Lit," a course that rambles amiably from Dante to Spenser to whatever pops into Casey's head. At his weekly talk in chapel, students still "wood" him (stamp their feet in applause). And after big games, they still gather about his Colonial house and yell "We want Casey!" until he emerges, beaming and blushing...