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Only during the past year has Segal begun to recover from the emotional shell-shock resulting from everyone's over-reaction--including his own. After all, his persona scholastica does include a Guggenheim Fellowship, nearly two dozen articles and reviews, a collection of essays on Euripides, Roman Laughter, the first study in English devoted entirely to Plautus--Rome's first comic playwright--as well as English translations of Plautine comedy. An extensive treatise on Terence, a kind of sequel to Roman Laughter, remains unfinished as Segal develops new insight from recent findings of the Greek playwright Menenader which may place...
...perusal of her impressive record indicated the qualifications of at least a full professor, if not a demi-goddess, as she is viewed by some of her more devoted disciples. At forty-four, Dr. Shklar boasts a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University, a Ph.D. (1955) from Harvard, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Birkenhead Prize from the American Political Science Association, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a vice presidency of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and four universally respected books on political theory and intellectual history...
Died. Edmond A. Guggenheim, 84, philanthropist and an heir to one of the largest family fortunes in U.S. history; in Phoenix. The grandson of Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant who started with a small knickknack business and built a vast mining and smelting empire, Edmond Guggenheim helped supervise the family's copper holdings throughout the Western hemisphere for nearly half a century. For more than 30 years he also presided over the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, which provided free dental care to the poor...
...prime example of Whittingham's thesis that the best way to get a horse to run fast is to train him slowly. When the late Publisher Harry Guggenheim entrusted the big bay colt to Whittingham in 1969, the veteran trainer knew he had something special. "Nothing's going to catch Ack Ack at short distances," he said. "The only question...
...strict Calvinist schoolteacher, Mondrian began his art studies in Holland. In the Guggenheim show, we first meet him around 1890, painting talented but not remarkable brown Netherlands landscapes and still lifes. Though Mondrian came to detest nature, the flat horizons punctuated by vertical poplars and crisscross windmills gave him a set of predilections about form which survived through his career-immeasurably refined and philosophized...