Word: leon
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According to Nesson's Web page, the five scholars Berkowitz's on ad hoc committee were Jerome Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here...
...like a big Norman ox, square-headed, strong-nosed, an homme du peuple. And indeed his father was, by trade, a cattle breeder. But the son studied architecture, and this began a lifetime's fascination with structure. His art training was, in fact, classical. His main teacher was Jean-Leon Gerome, academic par excellence, and it's not much of a stretch to suppose that the Geromes and Bouguereaus he saw, with their pale, continuously rounded flesh (tubular, in a way) and their meticulous highlights, influenced the "Tubism" of his maturing style. The manikins in his Contrast of Form paintings...
...other lines, Ginsberg asks if Levinsky trembles when the cock crows and employs such words as dissemble, tearful and fearful. The Levinsky in the poem is actually Leon Levinsky, a relatively minor character in Jack Kerouac's first novel, The Town and the City...
Thus the parade of witnesses: Nelvis the steward, who is in the White House day and night; and Currie the personal secretary, who works long hours; and George Stephanopoulos, who was Clinton's alter ego; and Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff; and then Kris Engskov, the body man who carries Clinton's coat. Starr has subpoenaed the phone logs and entrance logs and sought the testimony of Secret Service agents. And he has done all this in the same 10-day period during which he was searching Monica's apartment, questioning relatives, pursuing leads from her proffer...
...prosecutor leaked--top officials have often been the source of some of the very stories they decry. In the winter of 1973, after the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, had been fired by Nixon in a confrontation over access to the secret White House tapes, a Texas lawyer named Leon Jaworski took over the case. After he went to Washington, some of the tapes were handed over to the prosecutor's office, and Jaworski listened to them...