Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rush of good-fellowship that has the Soviets packing for Geneva again. Rather, the past year made it plain that their attitude of aggrieved peevishness was getting them nowhere. When the NATO governments were staunch in their determination to install new Pershing II and cruise missiles, the disarmament movement in Europe withered, and with it a good part of Moscow's hopes for forestalling the deployments. The Soviets meanwhile heard increasingly come-hither talk from the President and realized by summer that his re-election was all but certain. "They faced four more years of Ronald Reagan," explains...
...posture of the three figures is slack, the battle dress disheveled. The faces are young and tired. The eyes are wary. There is nothing heroic about the bronze men, but together they suggest the wordless fellowship that is forged only in combat. And there can be no mistaking where they fought: Viet...
...Rabassa's attachment to Latin America, he prefers to live in an English-speaking environment. Born of a Cuban father and an American mother, he has spent most of his life in the North eastern U.S. He did go to Brazil for 18 months on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in the mid-1960s, but that was long enough...
...remarkable human being, and a tremendous benefactor of Harvard, in many other ways than financial". Johnson added. Weld also contributed regularly to the Lucius W. Neiman Fellowship for journalists, according to Johnson. In addition, Weld raised funds for the University as a member of two Harvard Campaign committees...
...joke was not on him. When he first heard the news, Comedian-Mime Bill Irwin, 34, thought they were trying to kid a kidder. But in truth he had become the first active performing artist to receive a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The so-called genius award means that Irwin, who charmed audiences with his 1982 The Regard of Flight clown show, will get $180,000 over the next five years. Awards last week also went to 24 others, including a Georgia country doctor, Curtis Names Sr., 64, and the founder of the World Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts...