Word: fellowship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theo Hancock is a brash, engaging young Briton who invaded the U.S. two years ago with a fellowship to study art at Brown University. Instead of studying, Hancock produced it. Brown saw little of him; the 25-year-old artist hitchhiked about the East, painting watercolors of what he saw and exhibiting them in Boston, Providence and Manhattan. Then he drifted westward, still painting, and exhibited his land-and cityscapes and industrial scenes in Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco. Last week he opened in Los Angeles...
Wagner's only contact with Harvard came during his one year fellowship here, and he makes the mistake of over emphasizing the Niomans' place in the overall University scene. Too little is said about the other innovations of the Conant and late Lowell administrations, such as the National Scholarships, University Professors, and the Society of Follows...
...best things that has happened to Griswold since he moved into his Woodbridge Hall office in July was a million dollar gift Yale got last month to finance research fellowships for young scholars in the humanities. The fellowship plan will permit bright young men on the Yale faculty to leave their teaching posts and write for a year without any reduction in salary. Griswold is convinced that rearch is essential to good teaching. "I see no fundamental conflict between the two, as those who carelessly use the phrase 'publish or perish' seem to. You become mellow, pipe-smoking, and tweedy...
...unbudgeted item of last-minute expense: in a gesture of good fellowship and good showmanship, Bing ordered 100 cups of afternoon coffee served to a sidewalk queue that had lined up for standing-room tickets...
Copland was the first U.S. composer to win a commission (for his Music for the Theater) from the newly formed League of Composers, the first to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also collected a Pulitzer Prize, in 1945, for Appalachian Spring, and a Hollywood "Oscar" this year, for his score for The Heiress...