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...play to the groundlings; he figured they would climb up to meet him. He and Houseman would fool them into think-ing enlightenment was entertainment. This tendency to edify enchantingly was clearest in the author sketches with which Welles often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens was, the "?tis" and the "Pittsburgh" - in this honey of an intro, written by Houseman for "The Count of Monte Cristo...
That view includes strong ideas about the duty of physicians to heal more than just the body. In 1994 Carson and his wife Candy created a scholarship fund for top students in Grades 4 through 12. "I find that in a lot of schools, kids think it's not cool to be smart," Carson says. He would like young scholars to get some of the limelight that's usually trained on athletes...
...definitely not what Thompson had in mind when he won a scholarship to West Virginia's Marshall University, majored in geology, then enrolled at Ohio State with the intention of becoming a coal geologist. But while working on his master's degree, he took a research job that put him in contact with the first ice core ever retrieved from Antarctica. To his surprise, he became entranced with the idea of reconstructing Earth's climate history from the dust particles, pollen grains and subtle geochemical shifts trapped in the core's layers...
...August, and therefore time to bring scholarship, experience, and psychobabble to bear upon the question of why Al Gore has grown a beard...
Harvard’s capital campaign raised 225 million dollars specifically to increase financial aid. Harvard’s financial aid budget for next year is close to $100 million, with $63 million of scholarship funds coming from the endowment...