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Most fourth-year grad students take only highly specialized courses and research their theses--there is little time to indulge an intellectual whim. For Bergvall, though, this course provides the historical context for her own research in Kikuyu. She has, in fact, applied for a Fulbright grant to study the language in Kenya next year...
...What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur who regards her craft as a pastime. Early on, the Fulbright scholar decided on fiction as a career. Says she:"It's like music. Are you just going to play the piano in the basement, or is it for real...
...Post the other day ex-Senator J. William Fulbright recalled, "In the old days, when your speeches were reported in the press, reading was clearly a habit with everybody. But in television, it's this sort of instant impression. They always to cut down everything to just a fraction. Your reasons are usually left out because they're not flamboyant...
...business experience tends to undercut the criticism that a man with no formal diplomatic background was chosen for the top foreign policy job in an Administration already woefully lacking in international expertise. "Relative to the rest of the Administration, Shultz has had experience," says former Senator J. William Fulbright. "He brings to the office an enormous personal acquaintanceship with heads of state around the world," says New York's Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston...
...first-person singular pronoun were eliminated, and then proceeded to converse through an entire meal without using it--is also interested in languages. He will continue his education next year in Germany, where he will study philology on a German scholarship administered in this country by the Fulbright committee. He speaks several European languages in varying degrees of fluency, and has picked up snatches of many languages from students and visiting scholars; he counts a recent course in Arabic as among his favorite at Harvard. Still, the study of language and linguistics in Germany does not seem for Sheppe...