Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago classics scholar Erich Segal was forced to leave Yale after he published Love Story, a bestseller about a love affair between two Harvard students. At the time, it was argued that it was not appropriate for a scholar to write popular fiction, or even to be familiar with...
...academic pressure has not stopped scholars from leading a double life, scholar by day and novelist by night. Now Thomas Mallon has returned to the scene of Segal's crime, Arts and Sciences, his first fictional work, tells the story of a young man's passage into adulthood in Cambridge, Mass...
...very overrated," the author-scholar says, adding that writing fiction is "infinitely easier than nonfiction." Calling it "entertaining to create little adventures, not to have to pay fidelity to truth," he says he had fun writing the book...
...Wheelwright] is an outstanding scholar," said Harvard B-School Professor Joseph L. Bower, "but there is really no difference between this appointment and another. We just try and get outstanding people...
...Appleton, a professor of music and acolleague of Cole, said he was pleased with thedecision. He called Cole "a brilliant scholar" andadded, "I have no doubt that they were raciallymotivated...