Word: academia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members include Janet Abramowicz, a painter and print-maker with a diploma from the Academia delle Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy; Marcia Allentuck, a lecturer in English literature at City College in New York, who will study British and German aesthetics and literature; and Ingrid G. Brainard, a musicologist who will prepare a study of 15th century dancing and its contribution to cultural history and musicology...
...United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist China's renowned research institute. He also worked out a complex interpretive system of population analysis, which convinced him that the current estimates of some 700 million mainland Chinese were wrong and that 300 million was a closer approximation of the actual figure...
Last week, in his headquarters near Taipei, Dr. Hu Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from...
...native of Germany, Jaeger held an honored place in international scholarship, and his works were read in several languages. He held the International Prize in Philosophy of Italy's Academia Nazionale del Lincei, the order Pour le Merite, which is the highest scholarly honor of West Germany, the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Redeemer and the Commander's Cross of the Order of George I, both Greek honors...
Last term the Highwaymen turned down an offer from Mort Sahl to go on tour with him, unwilling to interrupt their courses even temporarily. The group's folk singing, in Daniels' words, is just "a hobby in overdrive," but it does offer an advantage: "It puts academia in touch with reality...