Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teuber, a Fulbright Scholar, will play Mephitopheles, in the production. CBS television has signed a contract to televise the performance in the United States...
...analyze a 25-year collection of 2,600 rape cases-a major study of Southern "dual justice." Last spring Amsterdam also produced a memorable 119-page article in the Penn law review on the "removal" of civil rights cases from state to federal courts. Indeed, Amsterdam is the leading scholar of that unfolding technique, one of the big developments in U.S. law. While honing dozens of Legal Defense Fund briefs, he is also writing a lengthy trial manual for all U.S. defense lawyers, to be distributed by the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute...
...sober poet and scholar, Moore dashed off A Visit From Saint Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, in 1822 as a fanciful amusement for his own children. Little did he know that his poem would eventually change the image of Saint Nicholas around the world...
Schonfield, 64, became interested in Christianity at 17, when he was a student of New Testament Scholar R. H. Strachan at the University of Glasgow. In a career of publishing and writing, he has increasingly concentrated on Christ. In Passover Plot his thesis is that Jesus believed himself to be the "expected Messiah of Israel" and that he set out deliberately to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies of the rejection of the Messiah, his suffering as expiation of the sins of the world and his ultimate triumph over death. Jesus, says Schonfield, "carefully plotted" every step of his brief public...
...Sometimes on the quality of a single piece of writing, you bet that he will be a good scholar 25 years from now," Ford said...