Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
...Soviet Union has allowed a Ukrainian dissident invited to speak at Harvard to leave the country. He and his wife are now in London on their way to the United States...
Karavansky had previously accepted an invitation from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to give two lectures at Harvard on the problems of translating classical English texts into Ukrainian...
There are at present no plans to offer Karavansky a position at Harvard, but sources say he may be asked to stay on at the Ukrainian Research Institute...
...Harvard's invitation, extended at the Institutes's prompting by Donald Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, probably had a "positive effect" on the Soviet decision to allow Karavansky to emigrate, officials at Harvard and elsewhere said yesterday...