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These two works--the first informal, current and American, the second formal, historical, and Japanese--represent distinct poles in Reischauer's career. For he is a scholar constantly concerned with current problems, a former government consultant who remained at all times an "academician" and a thoroughly American varsity tennis player with an almost intuitive understanding of his birthplace, Japan...
...Committee of French Good Taste awarded a prize for masculine elegance to France's seven-star General of the Army Alphonse-Henry Juin, NATO's Central European commander. Marshal Juin, said the committee, "wears civilian clothes with as much elegance as he does the French Academician's green uniform or the full-dress blues of Field Marshal of France...
Conant's academic achievements, particularly his scientific eminence, have been a big factor in his success in Germany, a country which has a great deal of respect for both the academician and the scientist. But the activities of the past eighteen months have required him to forego these pursuits. In fact, he said, "as long as I remain the President's chief representative in Germany, my interest in education will have to remain dormant." Asked how long that would be, he replied as long as he was wanted...
Today, at 38, Koerner has abandoned symbolism for a fanatically objective approach to everyday subjects. His new paintings, on view at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week, struck at least one critic as coming "perilously close to academicism." But Paul Cézanne, who was no academician, would have approved Koerner's Mother and Child (opposite) for its delicate interplay of geometric planes. The master might even have envied its draftsmanship. The plain young mother and her beefy, carrot-topped boy are treated as coolly as a still life, yet his energy and her weariness are perfectly conveyed...
Since 1948 Academician Trofim D. Lysenko has dominated the biological and agricultural sciences of the Soviet Union. His theory that plants can be changed fundamentally by changing their environments was scoffed at by the world's geneticists, but it had a strong appeal to his wishfully-thinking bosses. Backed by political favor, Lysenko gained so much power that his word was close to law. Scientists who opposed him were thrown out of their positions. Some disappeared...