Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt but what the "two American Legionnaires" who stupidly objected to the appointment of this Japanese-born scholar were typical...
...question of Basic English, raised by Winston Churchill at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 20), a small voice had a large suggestion to make last week. The voice was that of Dr. Lin Mou-sheng, Chinese scholar, author and editor. On CBS's People's Platform Dr. Lin interrupted a discussion of whether Basic English should be encouraged as an international language. Dr. Lin asked a disarming pair of questions: Why Basic English? Why not Basic Chinese...
...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
Blond-haired, German-born scholar of politics, Carl Joachim Friedrich, professor of Government, was a natural to head the Overseas Administrators' School when it was established last February. Now training military governors who may someday take over the temporary administration of his form-his trainees the benefit of a wide store of trainees the benefit of a wide store of first hand experiences with European governments and people during his youth spent abroad...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...