Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergraduates to commit themselves prematurely to a narrow area of study, and it can be argued that an undergraduate education deep and narrow is not the best preparation for the student who plans to make his career someplace outside the academy. It has even been argured that the future academician should have an undergraduate education which is something other than a preview of what he will get in graduate school, as much as should the future doctor, lawyer, or businessman...
...Nazis banned it because of its antiRomantic ring. And after the war, when Hindemith returned to Europe after 13 years in the U.S., he was widely considered a walking anachronism by the new musical revolutionaries. In youth, he had been called "the playboy." In age, he was "the academician." In more than 40 prolific years, he never won much of an audience...
Grief for the Academician and the former street singer was nationwide-the French only bury their politicians but mourn their artists. With the deaths of Piaf and Cocteau, France had been robbed of two incomparable figures, whose joint epitaph might well be Piaf's defiant song, Je ne regrette rien...
Earlier offers of space cooperation got nowhere with the Russians, but recently Academician Anatoly Blagonra-vov, Russia's space front man, suggested to NASA that the U.S. and Russia should move into serious discussion of cooperation after more has been learned about the moon's surface. Did this mean that the Russians would soon attempt a "soft" instrument landing on the moon? U.S. spacemen would be relieved to know the answer. For though none of them wholly agree with British Astronomer Bernard Lovell, who thinks that the Russians are making no effort at all to put their cosmonauts...
...mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers...