Word: jakobson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About a month ago a small green love-bird departed from its cage in a Prescott Street apartment and set our to explore the neighborhood. With the anxiety of an expectant father, Roman Jakobson, Samuel Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and owner of the bird, stayed up all night waiting for her return. The next morning she wandered in blissfully and Jakobson, with mild censure, returned her to the wire, webbed cage. Such concern is not rare in Jakobson. Those who know him say that he is a devoted man-attached to his studies, to his friends...
...Jakobson's assiduous studies of philology show his most intense zeal. Throughout his life he has worked excessively, both in residence at universities and on vacations. When he was wrapped up in a problem during his youthful days in Prague, he would frequently work 36 hours without sleep...
Professor Roman Jakobson, who came from Columbia this year, is one of the world's leading philgists, and has command of most languages spoken between the Elbe and the Yangtze. His wife, Dr. Svatava Pirkova-Jakobson, teaches Czech...