Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myrdal, a diplomat-scholar famed for his classic study of American race relations, An American Dilemna, outlined the political conclusions and solutions he had drawn from his three volume An Asian Drama in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre...
...Augustin Cardinal Bea, 87, brilliant Jesuit theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned fervently...
Shored Against Ruin. Mrs. Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow, was given photographic copies of all the documents by the library, and she gave Yale Scholar Donald Gallup exclusive access to them. In the 20 hours available to him, Gallup produced several pages of detailed notes for the Times Literary Supplement, plus four illustrations photographed from the text. Of 57 sheets in the original Waste Land, 42 were unused; it is impossible at this stage to assess how much Ole Ez (as Pound liked to sign himself to friends) cut out, and to what extent Eliot...
...Zemurray chair was given to Radcliffe in 1948 with the stipulation that it be filled only by a distinguished woman scholar in any academic field. Helen Maud Cam, professor of English Constitutional History, held the position before Miss du Bois...
...Bois' successor has not as yet been chosen, Mary I. Bunting said yesterday that a committee was formed last spring to choose a qualified woman to fill the chair and that at least 30 names have been suggested--soem from abroad, some relatively young, and some distinguished older scholar. Mrs. Bunting declined to mention any names since these women are not aware that they are being considered for the position...