Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competition for Fulbright and Inter-American Cultural Convention Awards for the academic year 1959-60 is now open, Lawrence G. Jones, chairman of the Fulbright Committee, announced, and will close...
Newly married, he left for Italy in 1952 on a Fulbright grant. Nowadays his rigidly imposed training schedule includes 90 minutes a day for violin practice, regular composition (mostly unpublished chamber works). He is already working on scores he will conduct three years from now ("The music must sink in"). He memorizes all scores, usually on a first reading, and claims to have such absolute pitch that he can identify the make and model of most cars by ear. "I drive my car mostly by ear," he says, "and shift gears when the pitch of the motor reaches B flat...
...violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that as the years go by, the people of the South will realize that they have a stake in each American citizen being a full...
...just a banquet; it was "one of the landmarks of the pre-World War I era." That is the thesis of Author Roger Shattuck, Fulbright scholar and assistant professor of Romance languages at the University of Texas. In his breathlessly complicated period study, Shattuck takes as true a highly debatable line written in 1913 by Poet Charles Péguy-"The world has changed less since Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"-and discusses the nature of the change as expressed in French art. Author Shattuck has chosen four French men of the arts to exemplify...
...Bill Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges noted wryly that the U.S. would probably not be in this predicament had it let Britain, France and Israel finish off Nasser at the time of Suez. Montana's Mike Mansfield, acting Senate Democratic leader, and Arkansas' Bill Fulbright wanted the U.S. to act through the U.N. in some sort of joint effort. Finally, House Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke up: "Mr. President, what I want to know is, do you realize the implications of the step you are taking? I want to ask, if you go this...