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...undertaking humanitarian programs is not the concern of the Ford Foundation alone. The American people donate an average of $5,600,000,000 annually to charitable organizations. Less than 3 per cent of this money comes from Ford and other big foundations like it--Rockefeller, Carnegie, Russell Sage, Guggenheim, and approximately sixty others with more than $10,000,000 in capital. Still more comes from small endowments and outright gifts from individuals...
Eleven faculty members have received Guggenheim Fellowships for independent study and research...
...purpose, says Brugmans, is to expose the student to a new attitude and a whole new field: "Europology." Under such teachers as Jan Tinbergen, The Netherlands' top economist, Walter Hoffmann, director of the Institute of Economic and Social Studies at the Westphalian State University of Munster, Paul Guggenheim, professor of public international law at Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies, and British Historian John Bowie, each student concentrates on three out of eight broad subjects offered: history, political science, economics, law, sociology, geography, administrative science, European institutions. Every year, before the term begins, the faculty picks...
...been offerin' them a love they never even try to return." Author Lamming himself has done better than most Indies emigrants. Not yet 30, he has been a BBC broadcaster, his writing has been widely praised, and he is now in the U.S. on a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Emigrants fails to get the most out of its characters and a world they never made. But it is rich in atmosphere and a sense of tragedy, again proves that Author Lamming has a virtuoso's ear for catching the rhythms of island speech. Half-white, half-Negro himself...
...flowers the day Hitler arrived. Ray managed to escape on a freighter, along with Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, arrived in Manhattan in 1942. Soon after, Ray found his paintings turning into abstractions, called on Duchamp for advice. The result: Duchamp arranged a show for Ray at Peggy Guggenheim's avant-garde gallery. Since then, Ray has lingered longer and longer over each canvas; his finished pictures with all layers dried out often weigh...