Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Yudin speaks, Russia listens. For Moscow University Professor P. F. Yudin is to Soviet dialectics what Eugene Tarle is to Soviet history-the nimble scholar who can trim theory to fit practice. Last week the gist of a talk Yudin gave a group of Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special...
...Perk," as he is informally known, is a Harvard-man's Harvardman in the best traditions of the gentlemen and scholar. Though he has not had a foot in a stirrup in twenty years, he speaks reminiscently of his experiences on the range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew...
When Mo brought back the news of Chang's interest in history, Chiang was delighted. He asked Mo to find a famous scholar who would instruct the Young Marshal and recommend more books. Mo complied. Now Chang is reading The Modern History of China, History of Indo-China, History of Manchuria, and (as a reminder that even the most vigorous dynasties must have an end) The Sad Tales of the End of the Ming Dynasty...
...first book, "The High Court of Parliament," written in 1910, brought him immediate recognition as an eminent scholar. Since then he was written many other books, including the "American Revolution," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. A past president of the American Historical Society, he is a prominent member of numerous American and British historical associations. He has done a great deal of research in England, and as recently as 1944 he was a resident member of Balliol College, Oxford...
Besides this quiet library there is no other place about his Belmont home that is like a scholar's retreat. Professor McIlwain and his family share the rambling, three-story house with his "houn" pack--three cocker spaniels and a German shepherd. Lizzie, the shepherd, is a rather lethargic creature, but the cockers, trailing a flying wake of carpets, play a floppy-eared game of follow the leader in and out of doorways, up and down the stairs...