Word: germani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gino Germani, an Italian Sociologist and a student of modern Argentina; Enrique Anderson-Imbert, an Argentine literary critic; John H. Parry, a British historian of Spanish settlement in America; and Albert O. Hirschman, an economist specializing in Latin American development, will begin teaching here next year...
...Germani will join the Faculty January 1, the others in the fall...
...houses they built of them have collapsed. In Fyodor's mind the irony inherent in the lives of displaced persons becomes explicit; it becomes a dancing landscape, in which his private Russian past of butterflies, poetry and childhood games blurs into the hateful Berlin present of landladies, "Germani-cally stupid" language students, and menacing politics, as the Weimar Republic, "oppressive as a headache," clumsily snuffles toward its collapse. Fyodor's trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only...