Word: scholarly
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raised $1 million for a "Colorado Scholar" in the Women's Studies...
...didn't force her to make stag films, as Humbert had said. The real problem, though, is in the narrative voice. In Lolita, Humbert, an educated European, could wax satyric in language as elaborate as any poet's or pedant's. Lo, 11 when the tale begins, and no scholar, must be limited in word power and storytelling skills. Yet the book's prose style, while undistinguished, is far too precocious and knowing for even the brightest kid. Lo could no more have written Lo's Diary than Harry Potter could have written the Harry Potter books...
...such an atrocity possible? Experts cite an absence of discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek...
MacFarquhar praised Moravcsik's research. "His most recent book was a path-breaking study...He is a first-rate and prolific scholar on Western Europe and acknowledged to be the leader in his field both in the US and Western Europe...
...School Dean John C. Jeffries said in an interview that Stuntz is a "leading scholar on the intersection of criminal law and criminal procedure" and said that the school certainly regretted his departure...