Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter Fulbright. Last spring she bought a new straw hat and headed back to her home town of Jonesboro for her third try. But this time she faced four opponents, among them Congressman James William Fulbright, who is young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
...poll of the Senior Album several years ago showed that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston performances (including one midnight show...
...custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
These dicta helped win for their author a $1,000 prize offered by the Atlantic Monthly for an article on freedom of the press. Victor over nearly 700 competitors, mostly working newsmen, the author is Robert Lasch, 37, Rhodes Scholar and Nieman Fellow, now one of four editorial writers for Marshall Field's left-wing Chicago Sun. Like most modern social critics, Writer Lasch virtually absolves "the people" of moral responsibility for social ills, assigns that responsibility almost exclusively to the leaders. At times his essay suggests a private's-eye view of the generals. But every experienced...
Shigeki Sakimura was one of the submerged, and now forgotten, intellectuals of Japan. As a student he explored the social sciences, brooded over his country's oligarchic economy, dallied with Marxism. At 30, the hardworking, high-strung scholar became a full professor. Two years later, in 1941, his Government sent him to Berlin as Embassy attaché, to study German heavy industry...