Word: academician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...
...Army is ever going to disguise the purely military subject in its curricula (there are two curricula in existence now and a third under development) to nullify the severe academicians who demand social science type subjects for officer training, is a problem of impressive magnitude. Personally, I am convinced that the problem cannot be solved completely without vitiating the Army ROTC program as it is now conceived. At the same time, I am convinced that there is sufficient validity in the Army's current Modified Curriculum, when evaluated intoto, to meet the academician's demand for college-level subject matter...
...Army is ever going to disguise the purely military subjects in its curricula (there are two curricula in existence now and a third under development) to nullify the severe academicians who demand social science type subjects for officer training, is a problem of impressive magnitude. Personally, I am convinced that the problem cannot be solved completely without vitiating the Army ROTC program as it is now conceived. At the same time, I am convinced that there is sufficient validity in the Army's current Modified Curriculum, when evaluated intoto, to meet the academician's demand for college-level subject matter...
Died. Jean Paulhan, 83, author, editor and academician; of cancer; in Paris. As longtime editor (1925-40, 1953-68) of the prestigious monthly La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paulhan helped guide the careers of such luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. He be rated the mediocre, praised the promising, and generally acted like a mandarin of French letters. He was elected to the sedate Academic Française in 1963, even though it was rumored that he had written L'Histoire d'O, a novel about the joys of masochism...
...whole of my life and work has been and is consecrated to the modern city," says Victor Vasarely, 59, France's great academician of op art. "For me, there is nothing more beautiful than New York, especially at night." Inevitably it follows that Vasarely lives in immaculate seclusion behind iron gates on a wooded estate at Annet-sur-Marne, 20 miles from Paris-and refused to journey to Manhattan even for the opening of his current show at the Sidney Janis Gallery...