Word: neh
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...past, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)--which ran the seminar program--has sponsored summer study in the humanities on college campuses throughout the country for college professors...
...department recruited Baranczak on the basis of his published work, but not all refugees have had that assistance. Sixty-eight-year-old Soviet writer and dissident Kirill Uspensky, now working at the Russian Research Center with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), says he wrote to universities "all over the world" to find a place to finish his project, the compilation of a dictionary of unconventional Russian words. Once Harvard had invited him, it provided him with office space and supplies for his work, and colleagues at the University helped him prepared documents for his NEH...
...hardly complaining. "The budget proposed for '83," he says, "is a substantial amount of money. We can still do a large number of things." But in his four months in office, Bennett, 39, has aroused the suspicion of the arts and humanities constituencies around the country that the NEH will begin to reflect the partisan conservative attitudes of his political sponsors...
Last month Bennett provided worried onlookers with a crackling good controversy. He criticized the fact that an hour-long film, entitled From the Ashes... Nicaragua Today, had been partly funded by a routine grant of $45,623 from the NEH...
...fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White House, to say nothing of orders or directives, as to how best...