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Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha Graham taught pioneering classes in modern dance...
Brezhnev's keynote address, delivered in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses, lasted more than five hours. Listening intently were some 5,000 Soviet delegates and hundreds of foreign guests, including Cuba's Fidel Castro (who sported the only full beard in the hall), North Viet Nam's Le Duan, Italy's Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer and his Portuguese counterpart, Alvaro Cunhal. Brezhnev's speech seemed carefully crafted to convey a double message. While it extolled the benefits of détente-of which Brezhnev has been Moscow's principal architect...
...University of Pennsylvania "resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living." After he was fired from an instructor's job at Wabash College when a prostitute was found in his rooms, Pound showed up in London at 23 wearing a piratical red beard, green felt trousers, pink jacket, hand-painted Japanese tie, huge sombrero, one turquoise earring, and pince...
...humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves or cumbersomeness vanished. He sits squarely at the piano, his eyes fixed on the keys, making no theatrical gestures...
Hence-of course-La Varenne, a new French cookery school in Paris sponsored by Child, fellow cookbook Authors James Beard and Simone ("Simca") Beck, and other gurus of gastronomy on both sides of the Atlantic. What sets La Varenne apart from any other school of la cuisine classique in France is that it is run-efficiently-by an Englishwoman, Anne Willan-and it is the first full-scale school to offer lessons in English as well as French. Without mincing any mots, the well-financed academy has set out to challenge the haughty Cordon Bleu, the 80-year-old citadel...