Word: academician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes up these studies in the wake ofa tenure during which he fell under almostconstant media scrutiny, Allison says he willwelcome the opportunity to return to the quietlife of an academician...
...asked me, Wouldn't you like to go back and live again in the Soviet Union? After all, now they're rebuilding the society, they've published Doctor Zhivago, they don't arrest people anymore under Article 70 (for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation"), and the conscience of Russia, academician Sakharov, is practically a member of the government...
Later that evening Sergei, with his friend Sergo Mikoyan, the son of the President, paid a visit to the apartment of academician Anushavan Arzumanyan, who had spent the previous hours conferring with the elder Mikoyan...
...University of California's Hastings College of the Law, exemplifies the trend. Read enjoys "the hurly-burly of the dean's office," so much so that his new post is his fourth deanship. "A law-school dean is in some ways more like a football coach than an academician," he says. "You pull the team together, win as many battles as you can and move...
...attractive and frightening. The exploits of our people in the war against Hitler added an aura of heroism to that image. Khrushchev's thaw added glimmers of hope for mutual understanding. The horrible truth about Stalin's camps, the arrests of dissidents, the abuses of psychiatry, the exile of Academician Andrei Sakharov, the presence of our troops in Afghanistan -- all lined up and blown out of proportion by reactionary elements in the Western press -- worked to destroy the heroic aura, reducing our image to that of an anti-Christ "empire of evil." However, thanks to the peaceful initiatives...