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...Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and General Linguistics, is retiring...
...Jakobson is an international authority on Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures. He was one of the founders of the Slavic Formalist School of Literary Scholarship and a leader in the structural trend in linguistics and poetics. He has published over 350 books and articles...
...bibliography of his work appeared in two volumes that contained studies by other scholars; the volumes, issued in 1956 and 1967 in The Hague, were intended as tributes to Jakobson. His "Selected Writings" in six volumes are also being published there...
...credit them with having "a belief in a Supreme Being" as the draft act demands for exemption from duty. New Yorker Daniel Seeger is an agnostic who believes in "goodness and virtue for their own sakes," and has no faith in God "except in the remotest sense" Arno Sascha Jakobson, also of New York, accepts a creative "supreme reality in which "the existence of man is the result." California's Forest Britt Peter believes in "some power manifest in nature which helps man in the ordering of his life...
...outfitted ladies showed a tendency to linger near the pictures that best harmonized with their clothes. Collector Barbara Jakobson flitted among the black and white opticals, seeming to appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...