Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, the emphasis changed radically, with the program becoming a more competitive one, carrying fewer and higher stipends and greater academic distinction. Graham said last week that in the "old days, the sixties, it was avant garde" to enable women to return to the work force, adding that the fellowship's former role is now carried out by other programs within the Institute itself...
...fellowship program has not always had the same emphasis--many people look back to the days when it served as a place for women to get started in their field, rather than to pursue their interests after they had proven themselves scholastically. When then-Radcliffe president Mary I. Bunting initiated the program in 1960, and for years afterward, money was given away in small stipends of about $3000--it was called "baby-sitting money"--to women who wanted to continue serious education and return to the work force...
...high school student, opened her own portrait studio in 1910 and kept on track as a young mother in the 1920s, photographing the flowers in her garden. Her portraits, nudes, surrealistic juxtapositions and sensual studies of plants have been seen in scores of shows. She won a Guggenheim fellowship when she was 86 and was still working this year...
...When liquor is absorbed in the appropriate circumstances, there is an enhancement of fellowship through diminution of inhibitions," he added...
Before Goldsmith went to law school and became a lawyer specializing in tax and entertainment law, he worked for the New York City government on an urban fellowship. "Working for New York City reflects some commitment to the values that grew out of that period," Goldsmith commented. "The problem for a lot of people who came away from the late sixties with a heightened concern with current issues is that many are having problems finding channels to utilize this concern. It's harder to be sure what is the right thing to do in different situations. You want to sustain...