Word: leon
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Professor White also announced two Department promotions. Leon D. Bramson becomes assistant professor of Social Relations, effective July 1; David May-bury-Lewis moves up to assistant professor of Social Anthropology on the same date...
Meanwhile, at Harvard, Leon D. Bramson, instructor in Social Relations; Lloyd I. Rudolph '48, assistant professor of Government; and Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., instructor in Government, have led seminars in Nigerian history and the problems of cultural adaptation for members of the African Teaching Project...
...Janis is a member in good standing of the talented generation of pianists who have emerged in the U.S. since World War II: Van Cliburn, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher, John Browning, Glenn Gould (a Canadian, but a product of the U.S. concert circuit). All of them are fine technicians-in Janis' case, he thinks, because he had Russian training. "To Russians, the important thing is first knowing the instrument and then having the emotion; Germans, on the other hand, feel that first you play the music and then the instrument...
...long, soggy peninsula where Ponce de Leon once sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union...
...Leon Shaw played the Unidentified Guest (later identified as the famous Sir Henry H-R) the role that Guinness played in the Broadway production. Sir Henry should actually be the most important and obtrusive character in the play; but Mr. Shaw, though quite competent, let the lead slip from himself into the eager hands of the two middle-aged women. He unfortunately possessed absolutely no menace, and looked more like a night club comedian than a deus ex machina...