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...novelist selected Sherry for the job after reading his 1971 book on Joseph Conrad, Conrad's Western World. Greene was taken with the scholar's unbiased approach and willingness to travel to the remote and hazardous regions that inspired the author of The Heart of Darkness. And indeed, Sherry makes a fuss about his field investigations for this book: "Risking disease and death as he had done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery...
Khomeini was educated as a scholar in Qum, the holy city where he worked as a teacher, married and reared a family of six children. An excellent instructor, he was fascinated by the Greek philosophers, especially Plato, whose Republic provided the Ayatullah with a model for his own concept of the ideal state, in which the philosopher-king was replaced by the Islamic theologian...
...while Verba is saddled with thoseconsensus-building duties, he also has been aprolific and much-decorated scholar in his yearsat Harvard. The Pforzheimer University professor,Verba is a former Government Department chair whohas authored and co-authored 18 books, primarilyon group political participation and comparativegovernment...
Most say Bok, a labor law scholar, typically handles a problem as he would a legal case. Colleagues like Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31 describe Bok as a "rationalist philosopher" who shows unusual concern for the structure and consistency of arguments...
Wilson: Well, Matina is a scholar in avery relevant field. I am not a scholar of thesame kind. I have tried to do as much writing andthinking as I could, but it has more of aninstitutional focus...I think Matina and I havemany things in common and some real differences. Iwill draw very deeply on her knowledge but I won'ttry to replicate...