Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were often ringed by friends from Harvard, most of them ensconsed elsewhere, usually Oxford or Cambridge, and just down for the weekend, or otherwise passing through the great city, often with a Harvard traveling fellowship. Most of these people looked unshakably secure to us, or at any rate free of the semi-vagabond-age that then enclosed us. They had directions in which they were traveling, and positions to which they would return. I wouldn't have called them especially happy, but they were certainly complacent; they were, with an exception or two, contented enough, or perhaps not dissatisfied enough...
...found myself resenting this implication, usually unspoken, that it was the fellowship-holders and professionals among us who were engaged in the serious business of becoming adults and we, the unoccupied, who were coursing back to the carefree days of youth. In our circumstances, it always seemed easier to take refuge in a profession than to hold back for a time, come face to face with oneself, and ask why. It would have been easier, in any case, than a prolonged and, to all responsible appearances, pointless residence in a foreign city and, despite its great beauty, a hard...
Sedrick A. Tydus, 23, a Stanford University student, pays most of his living and educational expenses with money from a fellowship and student loans. Yet by collecting federal food stamps, Tydus is able to treat himself to movies, weekend trips and an occasional night on the town. Though the stamps help, Tydus concedes that without them, "I wouldn't be on the bread line...
...Chamonix, France. Its New York debut was part of a week-long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...
Steshenko is head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Research at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and is travelling on a four month UNESCO fellowship to the US and England...