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...series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France's L'Express his autobiography for publication, knowing well that no Soviet writer is permitted to publish abroad without first getting clearance from the censors...
...time of his death, Maldarelli was a professor emeritus of sculpture at Columbia University-a professor who never went to high school. Born to a goldsmith in Naples in 1892, he was brought to New York when he was nine. He be came a jeweler's apprentice by day, an art student at night. While roaming Europe in the early '30s, he flirted-but only flirted-with the abstractionists' world of pure forms and shapes. Back in Manhattan, he turned almost exclusively to nudes, refining his style until his surfaces were as smooth as a young woman...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, emeritus, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has won a $51,000 award in history. The Prize was given him Thursday by the International Balzan Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland...
James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, proposed Monday a three-point program to improve the quality of public school teachers in the United States...
Williston's former students and colleagues at the Law School remember him as one of those rare, "natural" teachers. Roscoe Pound, University Professor Emeritus and a long-time friend of Williston's, yesterday said that Williston was "not only a magnificent teacher, but a natural, thorough-going, 100 per cent common-sense lawyer...