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Last winter, on leave from Mount Holyoke College where he is professor of English, Johnston returned to Dublin to collect data for a biography of Dean Swift which he is completing under a Guggenheim Fellowship. Three years ago he published the autobiographical "Nine Rivers from Jordan," which dealt with his experiences as a war correspondent in the Middle East, Germany, France and Italy...
...major at Harvard in 1926. Those were the years when Serge Koussevitzky was leading the Boston Symphony through the most radical new music, and Carter caught fire. His first major work was a ballet, Pocahontas, in an advanced idiom; then came a symphony, a piano sonata (written on a Guggenheim grant), choral works and chamber music. Today he has a backlog of commissions that will keep him busy for another year...
...Frank Nicholas Piasecki was a fast-rising genius. The Philadelphia-born son of a Polish immigrant tailor and graduate of New York University's Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, he developed and in 1943 test-flew the second successful helicopter made in the U.S. (Igor Sikorsky flew the first in 1939.) The same year, Piasecki incorporated his own company to build helicopters and landed a Navy contract...
Pity the poor history major. His troubles began with departures to other coleges, were compounded by vacations, were aggravated by sabatticals, and were culiminated by Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Gilmore, Hammond, McKay, Schlesinger, Wolff, Bailyn, Conway, and McGann; Malia in the springtime; Albion and Graubard in the fall. So pity the history major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Greece, early Rome, most of the Middle Ages, half of Renaissance and Reformation, Russia from...
Pity the poor English major. His troubles began with a retirement, were compounded by a departure, aggravated by a leave of absence to Stanford, and culminated by five Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Baker, Bate, Brower, Levin, Shannon, Guerard, and Rollins. So pity the poor English major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Modern Novels, Romantic Poets, Elizabethan Literature, Early Tudor Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Criticism, and Modern Poetry. Unloved, unwanted, and now uneducated--pity...