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...Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, and Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, singled out the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, which requires a time sheet from every grantee, as an example of the conflict between government officials' perceived needs and the realities of scientific research...
Fogg staff members were disappointed by the construction delay. But at least one, Konrad Oberhuber, professor of Fine Arts, was understanding: "The Corporation wants to be cautious at a time when endowments for the arts are not very generous...
...recent Conrad books is more manageable-or readable-than Roger Tennant's new study. Tennant examines both the work and the self-manufactured legend, carefully separating rumor, romance and fact. The result is a concise work that offers a new understanding of the Pole, born Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, who became a great writer in a language he had difficulty speaking...
...outside the memorial room, toward the back of the chapel, there is now a separate memorial plaque for those to whom the church could not be dedicated: "Harvard University has not forgotten her sons, Fritz Daur, Konrad Delbruck, Kurt Peters, Max Schneider, who under opposite standards gave their lives for their country...
Naipaul blows his cover as Joseph Conrad's secret agent to the abandoned worlds of imperialism. Naipaul was born in Trinidad of Hindu descent and, like Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, made England his home. Like Conrad, Naipaul writes of social upheaval, solitude, madness and evil, but as they apply to the colonized, not the colonizers. And he is merciless...