Word: citizen
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Professor Hanfmann's present role in the excavation of Sardis culminates a varied career in art and language. He was born in Russia but left in 1921 to become a Lithuanian citizen. Most of his education took place in Germany where he received a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "That was in the afterglow of the great German classical education, and the emphasis then was on philology." he explains. "My experience after coming to Fogg Museum, in 1935, was a very good counterpoise to that training. Fogg combined a museum with active art collecting--this was a new idea...
...concepts and techniques of the calculus, as well as a grounding in the methods and goals of the physical sciences be required of any man who pretends to call himself generally educated. However, if General Education is really concerned with man as a "responsible human being and citizen," some such change must be made eventually, and present steps in that direction may be suggested...
Speaking as a Cambridge citizen, the attorney added that he felt the decision would help University relations with residents of the town, since it indicates that Harvard is making an attempt to alleviate the parking problem...
...city where, if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. Clothes have no shape; but then neither have most Russian women. Men are short and squat, built like square corks. Moscow would look 100% better if every citizen lost...
...Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance." In latter days Moses has been psychoanalyzed by Freud (Moses and Monotheism) and has taken his turn at the treaDeMille (The Ten Commandments). Now. ex-Communist Howard Fast, veteran of 14 mostly ideological novels (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), has turned out what looks like Volume I of a Mosaic saga with overtones of both Freud and DeMille...