Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kinasawich, a junior from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), was the center and leading scorer on Harvard's varsity hockey team, which last year reached the semifinals of the ECAC tournament. He had been ruled ineligible during his freshman year by the Ivy League eligibility committee, because he had once accepted money...
The Renaissance "Humanist" was a foe of medieval scholastic philosophy, an admirer of the Greek and Latin classics. Now Humanist means a believer in an ethical nonreligion, in which the Supreme Being is man, and prayer is "a telephone conversation with no one at the other end." To Humanists, God...
Erigena was judged a heretic by a church synod in 855. and he was murdered, so legend has it, by a group of his outraged disciples, who stabbed him to death with knives and styluses in his church. His major works were formally condemned by Pope Honorius III in 1225...
A cum laude student at Williams who turned to interpreting another Williams on Broadway (Cat) and in Hollywood (Streetcar}, Method Director Elia Kazan, 52, finally won a scholastic laurel that eluded him when he graduated in 1930. For having brought "unfailingly high standards to all he has touched," "Gadge...
Million-Dollar Index. Great Books is the fruit of an inspired collaboration between an intellectual with a taste for "business romance" and a hard-driving salesman with a rare knack for marketing culture. The intellectual is restless Mortimer J. Adler, 59, a martini-sipping scholastic iconoclast who first imposed himself...