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...American Council of Learned Societies has awarded $10,000 to Roman Jakobson, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. The Council praised Jakobson last night as a "pioneer" and "zealous organizer" in the establishment of Slavic literary studies throughout the world...
...Council also cited Jakobson as "an internationally-honored critic of many literatures" and praised his work in history, mythology, music, grammar, and folklore...
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...
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...