Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle, in turn, divined untapped organizing ability in the young scholar, soon named him chief of the Free French intelligence service-a job that gave Soustelle his first taste of intrigue and a graduate education in Communist political techniques. Soustelle's war was spent in battling for the Gaullist cause not only against the Germans but also against Allied intelligence services, including rival French units backed by Britain and the U.S. When he returned to liberated Paris in 1944, he recalls, "I did not expect to be praised, but at least to be noticed...
Icebergs & Porpoises. Scholar Spilhaus is a world authority on meteorology and oceanography, and a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year. As a member of the executive board of UNESCO three years ago, he made-only half facetiously-some arresting proposals: hauling Antarctic icebergs to water the Mojave desert, dyeing the ocean to control absorption of solar heat and thereby curb hurricanes, training porpoises to shepherd fish...
...vital campus relation, to Wriston, is that in which the scholar tries to stimulate students to "the cultivation of a mind that seeks to express itself in its own way at its own best "evel." This is part of "the democratic process," which "has a strength, a stability, a moral force that no other system can match," and the U.S. should take pride...
...TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DR. FAUSTUS (Caedmon). A rousing reading of Christopher Marlowe's curdled dramatic tale, with Frank Silvera particularly powerful as a Faustus who displays glimpses of the vile body peeping through the scholar's gown...
...bluest blade of them all is Lee Prince, who is merely rich, charming as a puppy, the handsomest man in the Ivy League, a handy athlete, hard drinker, scholar, and an author with a collection of short stories to his credit before he attains his majority. When he takes his girl friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore...