Word: scholarshipped
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...conservative rhetoric invokes with such shrill banality--it already does. Of course, the defunding of the endowments isn't going to kill off the arts in America. Painters, dancers, actors are tough as weeds and can grow in cracks in the concrete. There was great art, drama, writing and scholarship in America before 1965, when the endowments were founded. Dedicated people create ingenious strategies of survival for themselves. But why should they have to? By what meanness, through what smug Philistinism--and, above all, on what actual evidence--do our Jacks-in-office decree that the arts and humanities...
...widely read scholarship ranged from studiesin the Italian Renaissance to a monograph on theindustrial architecture of nineteenth-century NewEngland. He was a teacher whose influence willcontinue for many years...
...ends up alone by accident because they are the ones who stare blankly ahead, waiting for a sympathetic friend to pass. The prepared bring books and study cards. Some of my best thinking was done at the corner tables, where I would ponder my research or think of scholarship essays...
...Elaine Pagels. Her much honored 1979 work, The Gnostic Gospels, was one of the rare volumes of religious scholarship to find a general readership. In her new book, The Origin of Satan (Random House; $23), Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, examines how the earliest Christians made their opponents out to be the devil. First the Jews who spurned Christ, then the Romans who persecuted his followers, then other Christians who departed from the orthodoxies of the newly consolidating church -- each group in turn, she says, appears in early Christian texts not just as a philosophical contender...
...call will cost about 50 cents, and proceeds will go toward scholarship money for the winners or to some other charity...