Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to all the dining halls with promises of prizes for the first students to recognize him. No one does, and Spence uses the prize money to endow a junior professorship in communications. The one-time award will fund research for a young scholar who will be prohibitted from teaching classes or even speaking to students. The dean declares, "This may be my most lasting contribution to Harvard...
...interests, lively in his prose and incisive of opinion, Marty, 58, a Lutheran clergyman, is generally acknowledged to be the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...
That awesome vigor -- the tireless Marty even writes his books at a Morrow word processor while standing up -- is clearly evidenced in his daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom...
...Fletch's career: after the character proved a hit, Mcdonald worked forward and backward to fill in his story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced after being presumed dead for 20 years. At least one prominent mystery scholar sees the Fletch cycle as a high-minded quest for identity. Less academic readers will find it rakish...
...chairman of the newly created Women's Studies Program, British scholar Olwen Hufton, is visiting Harvard this week to lay the groundwork for the fledgling concentration and to prepare the way for her move next year from Reading, England...