Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets continued to press Goldman throughout the lunch meeting; the dialogue between the scholar and his interviewers over the Faculty Club's salad and fish often resembled a cautious sparring match...
...Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words but revels in their layers of meaning. (The play's coy title is a spelling-bee word meaning charitable.) Yet for all their brains, beguiling eccentricity and epic betrayal, the women are touchingly ordinary in matters of the heart. Every woman, and everyone who knows and loves one, will recognize...
...recent twist in the argument over whether Harvard offers its junior professors a fair chance is the charge that the University requires time-consuming administrative work that detracts from a young scholar's time to conduct research and write--the traditional criteria for senior-level posts...
...with the "best scholar" operating as Harvard's standard for promotions, junior faculty who have spent a large part of their seven years here teaching or doing committee work say they are disadvantaged...
When the IOP was founded in 1966, its first director, noted presidential scholar Richard E. Neustadt, hoped the institute would one day evolve into a research center focusing on governance questions...