Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisive part as well. But I wonder if the students actually realize how much influence they do possess. Some years ago a colleague remarked to me that the top students determined the character of any given department. He may well have been correct. I have yet to know a scholar who did not respond in some fashion to the flow of written and oral arguments presented by good students. This situation provides the most significant opening for students who respond critically and negatively to the world about them. If they come to the faculty rigidly and dogmatically prepared to defend...
Died. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, 74, Zen Buddhist scholar and first Westerner admitted to the Rinzai Zen priesthood; of a heart attack; in Kyoto, Japan. She began to follow Zen after a 1930 sightseeing trip through China and Japan and migrated to Japan in 1950 to open a study center. Convinced of her sincerity, the Zen Buddhists later ordained her as a priestess in charge of her own temple...
...Chinese scholar, who asked to remain anonymous, is a member of the East Asian Research Center. He said yesterday that he foresaw the hippie movement in a book on Eastern religions written ten years ago. He had predicted, however, that it would follow a third world...
...businessman-scholar who agreed to go with Wells Fargo only after warning that "I'm not interested in any job that's not active," Arbuckle has more management experience than many men who have spent their whole careers in the executive suite. Himself a Stanford business-school graduate (class of 1936), Arbuckle started off with Standard Oil of California first as a personnel officer, later as an organization analyst-with time out for wartime Navy duty as a PT boat squadron commander (for which he won a silver star) and on General Lucius D. Clay's staff...
...autobiography, no one betters the British, who prefer to live in the past and talk about it. Now 69 and Warden of Oxford's Wadham College, Sir Maurice Bowra seems to have spent a lifetime as a classical scholar preparing to write his memoirs. His sentences, too many of them balanced on a median "and," move at the stately pace of an Oxford processional. His assurance is majestic. It assumes that the reader will want to hear everything about him, from his encounter with the novelist Henry James, who asked politely if the young Bowra were still at school...