Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortas' letter did not mention the $20,000. Nor did Fortas-who is a rich man, a legal scholar, a violin virtuoso and a collector of art and antiques-really address himself to the key question posed by LIFE: Why would a man of his legal brilliance and high position do business with a well-known corporate-stock manipulator known to be under federal investigation...
Died. Rolfe Humphries, 74, translator and poet whose renderings of the classics (notably Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's The Art of Love) won acclaim; of diverticulitis; in Redwood City, Calif. Humphries' translations combined the best qualities of scholar and poet: a rare sense of artistry, humor and language; his own poetry was less well received by critics, though readers enjoyed such quiet poems as "No Enemy...
Saved by Dysentery. There are fine passages when pontification yields to personal memory. Toynbee tells how Winchester and Oxford-where it was held that history and literature ended with Demosthenes and Juvenal-turned him into a Greek and Latin scholar. As a result he never quite ceased, despite his own determined efforts, to look at the history of all mankind through the eyes of a Balliol classicist. Half of Toynbee's contemporaries died in World War I, and the fact made him a lifelong pacifist. He had been lucky enough to pick up dysentery which disqualified him for military...
...years on two great works. On one, begun in 1924, he did have the collaboration of Veronica Boulter who later became his wife (his first wife, Rosalind Murray, is mentioned here only once, in connection with her remarkable ability to communicate extrasensorially with her father, the Greek scholar Gilbert Murray). Their joint undertaking was the production of Survey of International Affairs, a running record of world events. In 1927 he began unaided A Study of History, which in twelve volumes describes and attempts to explain the dynamics of human civilization from man's beginning on earth. His account...
...highlight of the day will be a so-called sock-hop in the dining room. Fernando Gonzalez, scholar-athlete, will provide a lengthy tape of oldies but very goodies for a dance. Ray Orbison and countless other stars will emerge from the tape, and this one's guaranteed to blow everyone's mind. This could start...