Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether or not they belong to the offended minority--have a right to take issue with him. However, there is something dangerous about this particular case because none of Thernstrom's statements throughout the course warranted this extreme reaction. Throughout the semester, he fulfilled his roles as teacher and scholar by fairly presenting the full range of viewpoints on race relations in America...
...this century's most influential philosophers marred by his allegiance to the Nazi movement? That is the central question in a debate that has been raging since the publication last October of a new book on German Philosopher Martin Heidegger. The volume, Heidegger and Nazism, was written by Chilean Scholar Victor Farias and published in France after two West German houses rejected the manuscript. Although scholars have long known about Heidegger's early flirtation with National Socialism, he was generally thought to have become disenchanted with Hitler well before the outbreak of World War II. With new documentation, Farias charges...
Harvard's already record number of Rhodes Scholarship winners grew further when Richard H. Drayton '86, a native of Guyana raised in Barbados, was chosen as the 1988 Rhodes Scholar for the British Caribbean in mid-December...
Drayton, who is Yale's only Rhodes Scholar this year, laughed and said "they don't even want to claim me. They'd have preferred an undergrad...
...Phantom, described as a scholar, seems more a necromancer, dematerializing, teleporting, even dodging bullets. He defies the laws of gravity and physics: his kingdom in the bowels of the Paris Opera House is reached by rowing across a subterranean lake through which candelabra rise and descend, mysteriously unquenched. The lagoon seems to be at or above the level of his hideaway, yet his chambers remain unflooded. Allow oneself a moment's skepticism and the story turns to piffle. But audiences give themselves over to the fantasy concocted by Prince and Designer Maria Bjornson, letting logic evanesce as long...