Word: hering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the past nine years Paul Sigmund has divided his time between the U.S. and the rest of the world, spending a good half of this period in Europe, partly as a scholar, partly as a soldier, one year as NSA vice president, and almost all the time as a...
After summer school at both Heidelberg and Grenoble ("I wanted to learn French and German, but didn't until somewhat later") Sigmund came to Harvard, and attended GSAS in political theory along with Miles, Hoffman, Brzezinski, and Mavrinac. The next year ("I spent the summer as a car hop in...
In the summer of '54 Sigmund organized the NSA international student relations seminar here in Cambridge ("I had been interested in NSA as an undergraduate, but only mildly active"), and at the NSA congress in August was elected international vice president, "really a full time job." He tried keeping tutorial...
One donor, however, stated that his intent had been purposeful. "It is only the individual who styles himself as one of a 'cultural elite,'" he commented, who claims to be able to discriminate to the finest degree the 'good' from the 'bad' that can take offense. Here the scholar-as...
Earnest is a comedy of manners--not a duplication but certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless...