Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English consulted it, to be sure; but many were reassured by the knowledge that it, an Everest of scholarship, was there...
...Amherst College graduate, Banta was studying international relations on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford when he began working for TIME in 1979 as a stringer. After postings in Chicago as a correspondent and in New York City as a writer, he took a leave of absence in 1984 to work as issues adviser for Gary Hart's first unsuccessful presidential campaign. When he rejoined TIME a year later, Banta headed for Vienna, which is home base for his five-day-a- week forays into Eastern Europe...
Three of them were adherents to the radical school of legal scholarship, Critcal Legal Studies (CLS), which holds that the law is an instrument of social injustice. CLS has divided the academic community, and many right-wing professors nationwide have pushed to keep CLS professors off of law faculties...
Neither Kennedy nor Sullivan are considered "shrimps" themselves. They are not CLS adherents, and their scholarship didn't raise such questions of ideology...
Kennedy's work on capital punishment and discrimination is certainly left-leaning, but not ideologically controversial. Sullivan's scholarship is already considered on a par with the nation's most established constitutional law professors...