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...academic, Bok, who was both a former Fullbright scholar and editor of the Harvard Law Review, authored numerous books and articles...
Championing the arts as an Overseer comes naturally to Lithgow, who spent his undergraduate days splitting time between the Loeb mainstage and studies in Restoration drama. He did well enough in school to capture a Fullbright scholarship, but theater was his passion...
After an initial uncertainty about his career plans--and a sojourn in Paris as in Fullbright scholar--Bok decided on a career in teaching, and embarked on scholarship in labor law, an endeavor that was sidetracked temporarily in 1968 when he was named Law School Dean. That administrative digression was virtually made permanent two-and-a-half years later, when, after more than a six-month search, the governing Corporation tapped the 40-year-old Bok as Harvard's 25th president...
David Kepesh, the hero of Roth's novel, is a scholar of literature and lust. "Studious by day, dissolute by night" is David's motto although his career as a sexual prodigy only begins after he has won a Fullbright to study in London. There he meets two Swedish girls; Elizabeth, loving and sweet, and Birgitta, daring and wildly lascivious. The choice is between the hearth or the furnace and, characteristically, David wants both. For a while Kepesh manages to have that but Elizabeth flees the menage a trois and David eventually breaks with Birgitta, recoiling from the destructiveness...
Last year, the Japan Fund, the Japanese version of the American Fullbright Fellowships, was inaugurated...