Word: academician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geneva knew her as a plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925, fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific principles...
Phoenix to Floats. The principal decoration was a 15-foot phoenix in the middle of the dance floor, contrived out of wood and paper by Royal Academician Frank Dobson. Around it were parked half a dozen floats run up by various groups during the evening. At midnight the lights in the hall went out and blue spots played down dramatically from the four corners of the hall onto the phoenix, whose wings began flapping while its green eyes blazed. As the band played Auld Lang Syne, Big Ben's chimes were piped over the loudspeakers. Onto the crowded floor...
...little known partly because it was painted behind the Iron Curtain, partly because it was rarely noteworthy. Obviously Stalin may not know much about art, but he knows very definitely what he doesn't like. Stalin goes for the stiffly illustrational sort of painting that made the late Academician Isaac Brodsky a Kremlin favorite. Among Brodsky's best tries...
Observed 74-year-old Novelist Gide: "I am too well known, my reputation is too big, and I am too old." (Academician-Admiral Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze...
When French Academician Charles Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration, one newspaper commented: "What a long time for an Immortal!'" Last week the moribund Academy, with 14 of 40 seats vacated by prison terms and natural deaths, muffed its biggest chance in 300 years for a new lease on life...