Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether listening or questioning?usually the latter?Luce, a classical scholar at Yale, had a Socratic approach to ideas and issues. He was one of the most quotable men of his era (see boxes on following pages) but, perhaps because of the nature of his position, was seldom quoted. Though he was often condemned by the unknowing as dogmatic and opinionated?which he could be?his was generally the most open and inquiring of minds. Good journalists, he said, are "vessels of truth." He tended on the whole to take an optimistic view of history. Quoting Disraeli's proposition...
...neither the necessary funds nor the staff allotment to keep Becker on, students then simply took the matter into their own hands. The Berkeley student government coolly voted to spend $13,000 out of its own treasury to pay Becker next year to take over a newly created "Visiting Scholar Chair...
These people are from Measure for Measure and they won't put you in garden party spirits. (Neither will the numerous jokes that only a Shakespearean scholar can chortle over, nor the soliloquies, especially if you are secretly ambivalent about soliloquies.) But Measure for Measure isn't a daisies, quick laughter, jasmine tea affair. It's menacing. Daniel Seltzer's production wasn't menacing enough. We didn't feel oppressed as Angelo, Claudio, the studs, even Isabel fell under the repressive law. So the transformation at the end of the play from life under law to life under grace wasn...
...Lyndon Johnson to the paucity of privacy in the Moment of William Manchester. His articles appear in magazines ranging from the Ladies' Home Journal to TV Guide, and his features flicker on the tube from Today to Tonight, expressing, all in one, the horn-rimmed wisdom of the scholar, the sophistication of balding middle age-and the omniscient satisfaction of the eternal Quiz Kid. By this time, in short, the average American would be less than average unless he knew all about Arthur Schlesinger...
...foreign policy is really foreign politics, and if politics is the art of the possible, a major role for the scholar may be to advise the policy maker on what is indeed possible within the limitations of domestic politics in other continents and in other cultures. This is perhaps a reversal of the usual