Word: scholasticism
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The Secretary is finding that Rumsfeld is a more adroit maneuverer than Kissinger's old opponent James Schlesinger ever was. Says an insider: "Rummy is a dummy as a SALT scholastic. But he's politically savvy as hell, and he's going around town saying the U.S...
Davis quoted from the black radical W.E.B. Du Bois, who had once written that the black parent who forced his youngsters into integrated schools-where they might be unfairly and inhumanly treated-was doing them no favor. Cannily mocking social scientists, he noted that "much of what is handed around...
Doris was the only tutor in Dunster House who was with me every night until three or four in the morning with as many as 300 students in the Dining Hall. In time of crisis where so many ran away from the disruption of their scholastic life, Doris accepted her...
When he came to Cambridge from Alexander Jackson High School in Queens, Hines had the credentials and talent to be a star. High school play brought him all-Queens and all-New York City honors, and selection to several scholastic all-American teams. But he chose to sit out his...
The qualities Cecil Rhodes specified in his will as desirable in Rhodes scholars are wide open for interpretation. "Literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character, and...