Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabbi Herzog is a scholar who likes most to talk about his five-volume work, The Main Institutions of Jewish Law, but his interests range far & wide. Before leaving the U.S. next month he hopes to 1) visit the U.N., 2) see an Indian reservation, 3) meet Billy Rose...
...award is financed by a fund donated by Francis Sales who specified that it should go to the "best scholar in Spanish who shall have commenced the study of that Language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition...
...sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a century) shows why. He may not have been a great scholar, but like his contemporary, Sam Pepys, he had a lively...
Sweaty Me. The novel is in the form of a diary kept by a solitary scholar in 1932 in a French provincial town. Starting with mild expressions of disgust at existence, the entries run a truly resourceful gamut of the grotesque, the dispiriting, and the desperate. There is not a human being in the book who is not in some way loathsome, and the hyperconsciousness of the diarist soon gets to the point of seeing everything in a light both ghastly and obscene. One of Novelist Sartre's revelations...
...perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from old Sea Scholar Churchill the blissful, almost dreamy remark: "Seapower, when properly understood, is a wonderful thing...