Word: shklar
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...Shklar, a Cambridge resident, was a distinguished scholar and teacher of the history of political thought, notably that of the Enlightenment period. Her studies spanned the range of ideas at the intersection of political theory and literature...
...Shklar's colleagues in the Government Department described her as a "towering figure in her discipline" and an "absolutely devoted teacher...
...Shklar was hospitalized in Concord, N.H. last Friday after a heart attack during a family vacation. She was transferred Sunday to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where she died at about 3 a.m. yesterday morning...
...family flew to Seattle shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and were jailed for being non-U.S. citizens travelling from Japan. Shklar's father, an international banker, was able to secure their release through contacts in New York...
Stanfield Professor of International PeaceRobert O. Keohane, who was a student of Shklar'sin the early 1960s, said her work in the "eloquentdefense of liberalism" could be explained in termsof her experience; she was not one to take liberaldemocracy for granted...