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Timofey Pnin is a Russian émigré professor who has won a Pyrrhic victory over the English language. His name itself is a sneeze in search of a vowel. His colleagues at a small Eastern college can make out Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Each of these books is an intriguing mixture of political terror and pastoral. The authors spent years in those plague spots of the 20th century-concentration camps. One of them was condemned to death; the other contracted tuberculosis. Yet, their writing has far more sunlight than shadow, and their message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights to Freedom | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

"Thanks to the dedicated interest of these men, and hundreds of others," President Pusey said yesterday, "the Harvard Divinity School is again an important center of religious studies. A distinguished faculty and a growing body of students have given new vigor to the consideration of man's deepest questions, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Raises $5 Million For Additional Endowment Funds | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

His Boston interests were not exclusively devoted to Theologians Tillich and Wieman. He had met Coretta Scott, a pretty and talented soprano who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their early dates were less than completely successful. "The fact that he was a minister made me shy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

With that tasteless accusation as a spur to discontent, all the economic and political bills against the regime suddenly began to fall due. Most alarming, in 98% Roman Catholic Colombia, was the displeasure of the church. Crisanto Cardinal Luque. the saintly and unbending primate, considered the Third Force dangerous and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Chairman of the Board | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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