“Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, of blessed memory, was a man of giant intellect, equally at home in the literature of the sages and of the world, a master talmudist, a profound exponent of Jewish thought, a deep and subtle thinker who loved English literature and whose spiritual horizons were vast.”
– the above was written by one of the leading figures in the MO community. He equates rabbi lichtenstiens gadlus bitorah with gadlus in literture. To the charedi community this korov liapakarsus. (I am not saying anything against rav lichtenstien . there is not necceserily anything wrong with knowing literture – perhaps it is even required altz torah im derech eretz. But to say that was an ikkar chelek of his gadlus is pretty silly.)