Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corpse-strewn ruins; scrofulous, consumptive veterans (see cut, opposite page) coughing out pointless lives amid degeneration and squalor. Of all Germany's "degenerate" artists, Nazis numbered him first. In 1932, despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled to the U.S. He became a citizen, got a Guggenheim Fellowship and a job teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. And then vitriolic George Grosz astonished his erstwhile admirers : his scratching pen gave way to an affectionate, romantic paintbrush. In lush, vibrant color, curling brush strokes that recalled Van Gogh's, he painted sunclean, little nudes in airy...
...fact is that U.S. and British airmen are making Anglo-American history: they are getting along exceptionally well together. At the top, and across the British countryside, this official fellowship shows in many ways: the close integration of U.S. and British air staffs; the rapid transfer of R.A.F. airdromes, supply and maintenance depots to the growing U.S. forces; young U.S. pilots, fresh out of school and untried in battle, getting combat experience in British planes with British squadrons; U.S. tractors and excavators, operated by U.S. civilian laborers and Army engineers, clawing up the green lawns, parks and fields of many...
...group in the U.S. this week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...
...LEAN HOSTESS AT PARTY IN COOL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS- EVENT DEDICATED TO GOOD FELLOWSHIP - Macy-Hopkins Wedding Main Topic...
Perhaps more famous as a writer than a teacher, Professor Kohn has just completed "World Order in Historical Perspective," and with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship is in the process of writing a monumental four-volume "History of Nationalism." He teaches Government 18 (The Struggle for World Empire) and gives weekly lectures in current events at the Harvard Summer School...