Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his extreme suffering, Warren exercised sufficient tenacity to become an Oriental scholar of the first im- portance. For as long as possible he worked standing, with the aid of crutches. Soon, however, even this method became impossible. He then devised a system in which he worked kneeling upon a chair, supporting his weight by leaning upon his elbows. The incessant pain was so great that, in order to sleep, he had a special bed constructed. It is actually a small room built into the wall. The compartment is equipped with heating, ventilation and a roll-top cover which slides...
...have marked his way of life. First, he found it possible to work extensively and accomplish much. He was the first to know and translate many of the Buddhist and Peli texts. He read for his pleasure in French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Russian. Harvard's great Sanskrit scholar, C. R. Lanman, and President Eliot have both testified to Warren's impact upon the academic world...
Warren's humor, and his ability to suffer in an heroic and almost appalling quiet, are noted by Lanman. The Sanskrit scholar once joked with Warren about the latter's trouser knees which were frayed owing to his constant kneeling. Warren answered, "Ah, but when Saint Peter sees those knees, he'll say, "Pass right in, sir, pass right...
Carrots & Cops. Eight months ago Charles de Gaulle, soldier, scholar and writer, was a recluse, regarded by most of the world?when it thought of him at all?as a man whose role in history had ended a dozen years earlier. Today he is Premier and President-elect of France's Fifth Republic and exercises more direct power over his country's affairs than any other democratically chosen leader in the Western world. "His personal prestige," says a British expert on France, "is higher than that of any Frenchman since Napoleon...
...prosperous London practice to go home to Africa, after 40 years of self-imposed exile (TIME, July 21), Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda proudly adopted the title "the extremest of the extremists." A gnomelike little man who, as a youth, "wandered from university to university like a medieval scholar," in the U.S. and Scotland, he has more than lived up to his title. Though he speaks scarcely a word of his native tongue, he has stumped the countryside using translators (which seems to increase his prestige among his fellow blacks), railing at the British-sponsored federation of Nyasaland...