Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the afternoon meeting, however, was devoted to a routine review of the workings of the Institute, its undergraduate activities and its fellowship program for "in-and-outers" on leaves from government service for a year's study at Harvard...
Houghton Mifflin awarded its fellowship of $5,000 for this first novel, and has trumpeted it as a major publishing event ranking with Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero...
...Passagio" was written in 1962, and was performed at La Scala in Milan two years ago. Berio is presently at Harvard on a one semester teaching fellowship...
...distill all of these experiences into a running narrative capable of recollecting an era. Going from Memphis to New York to Saipan, Cloar skipped from cartooning to lithography to painting pinup girls on the fuselages of B-29s. Returning from the service, he got a Guggenheim fellowship for oil painting, was ready to throw in the towel when he discovered the technique of tempera. About the same time he settled in Memphis. Somehow, medium and milieu matched each other perfectly and Cloar, now 53, was soon the master of his own distinctive style -a kind of sophisticated primitivism...
...little over two years ago, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser convened the Arab world's first summit conference in Cairo, and managed to build a façade of "Arab Unity" against the common Israeli enemy. In a swirl of fellowship and flowing robes, Arab Kings and Presidents embraced as brothers, organized the Palestine Liberation Organization, set up a joint Arab military command, and created a committee to plan the diversion of Jordan River headwaters flowing into Israel's Sea of Galilee. The façade has been crumbling almost ever since, and last week with...