Word: scholarly
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James Schlesinger, who used to head the CIA and after that was Secretary of Defense, lamented the marked "decline of decorum" this spring, everybody shouting at everybody else. "Television lives on division rather than interpretation," offered Lloyd Cutler, a constitutional scholar and White House counsel for Jimmy Carter. Ever since his experience around the Oval Office, Cutler has worried about TV's distortion of the Government process. It has grown, not diminished...
President Bok yesterday, employing a veto power he has never before used, reversed a decision by the Law School faculty to grant tenure to a visiting scholar, professors said...
...withdrawing the offer of tenure to Visiting Professor David Trubek, Bok overruled more than two-thirds of the faculty and Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49, who voted earlier this year to tenure the legal expert, who is considered to be an ideologically left-leaning scholar...
...most impressive faculty member teaching outside the American area in the 1930s was C.H. McIlwain. His English Constitutional History never got past Edward I and his History of Political Theory from Plato to Rousseau stopped dead at Thomas Hobbes. It was from him that I learned what a scholar should be and what he should concern himself with. At the same time a class on the Soviet Union taught as the McIlwain history of political theory was, from the Department of Government, drew enormous crowds and enjoyed a marvellous reputation. I took McIlwain's course for credit, not the course...
Solomon, today's director, has ideal qualifications. A China scholar, he joined Kissinger's staff in 1971 and later headed the political-science department at the Rand Corp. Each morning he meets with Shultz for 45 minutes to discuss long-range policies, and he goes along on major diplomatic missions. Most important of all, he says, he has time to think. Given the daily evidence of the dangers of ill-conceived initiatives concocted in secret, this legacy of a more thoughtful era is something to contemplate...