Word: jakobson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
...Jakobson commented that the charges, which were reported by the Czech news agency, CTK, were "completely invented and utterly fantastic." "I can't imagine what this is all about," he added...
...former student at Prague University, Jakobson said that he exchanges linguistic papers with scholars in many countries, including Czechoslovakia. He denied, however, that these papers were in any way inflammatory or objectionable. "They are not scientific publications," he noted, "They are linguistic papers and contain nothing of a political or scientific nature...
Noting that he had sent "no more than two or three papers" to Czech scholars in the past year, Jakobson stated that the accusations had come as a "complete surprise." In his last visit to Czechoslovakia, he reported, he had been well received, and a lecture which he gave at Prague University had been "warmly reviewed...
...native of Moscow who arrived in this country in 1941, Jakobson taught for a time at columbia University...