Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found his soul upon the wicked stage. The foremost classical actor of his time, he attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed them into living...
...realize that I'm no constitutional scholar, and my half-B.A. doesn't match your summa J.D.'s and L.L.B.'s. Still, it seems to me that your proposal--to pass a statute making the flag a national icon like the Statue of Liberty--would easily be contested as a blatant violation of the Court's latest decision...
...outside scholar of American history, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said he was surprised that Harvard's history department had agreed to offer a lifetime post to Gienapp,whose work the scholar called "narrow...
...Prizes, most recently for his biography of Thomas Wolfe. His course on the Civil War is--naturally--bracketed this year. But if Donald actually deigns to teach a course next year, take it. He is one of the few Harvard professors who is as accomplished a teacher as a scholar...
THOSE who pushed for the selection of a feminist scholar rather than an administrator had hoped to find a woman who would be more vocal and supportive of women faculty and students at the University. Wilson is clearly not the one for that...