Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Killam Murphy in Shanghai. "It's a good idea to cut your teeth where the product won't be around to haunt you later," says Bacon. Back in the U.S. after a year, he wrote to the late great architect and city planner, Eliel Saarinen, asking for a fellowship at Saarinen's Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...student commiserates with his friend's academic misfortune yet feels a secret glee. Then he is ashamed and guilty at his selfishness. The Fellowship Orientation Meeting recently, where each senior stole glances of stealthy ambivalence at his beloved rivals, was a transparent orgy of the Cain complex in action...
...editor at Lady Bird's KTBC radio and television stations in Austin. At the same time-getting only six hours of sleep a night -Moyers also attended the University of Texas' Journalism School, racked up one of the best scholastic records in its history. He won a fellowship to study church-state history at Scotland's Edinburgh University. There he developed a lingering aversion to "moral absolutism," once explained: "No one has a monopoly on virtue or truth. Those who peddle this line, under whatever label, subvert the very thing they want to obtain...
...will have ample opportunity to savor it at firsthand. Phillips has won a 21-month Harkness Foundation fellowship that will enable him to paint and study in New York. He is convinced that the British painters will enjoy a long renaissance. Says he: "There'll be a lot of good people coming after us, and the older generation have started thinking again. For once, all the good artists are pulling their weight in England these days...
...step took him in 1920 into the Irish Republican Army. His experiences in the I.R.A., first fighting the British and later the troops of the Irish Free State during the civil war, left him with a "savage disillusion with Ireland's ineptitude." At 26, he won a graduate fellowship to Harvard and departed Ireland, convinced that "I don't care if I never see the bloody place again...