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Sculptor Louise Nevelson; author and critic V.S. Pritchett; Japanese economist Shigeto Tsuru '35; and medical pharmacologist Sir John W. Black round out this year's list of honoraries, which is one less than last year's 11 honorands...
...Pritchett, author and critic...
Other honorands include sculptor Louise Nevelson; psychologist B.F Skinner Bishop of Stockholm and former On many School Dean Krister Stendahl; British writer V.S. Pritchett; and main Commencement speaker Paul A. Volcher, the Federal Reverse Board chairman...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker, novelist V.S. Pritchett, sculptor Louise Nevelson, Bishop of Stockholm and former Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl are expected to be among 10 who will receive honorary degrees at Harvard's Commencement exercises Thursday...
Before Orwell's name becomes as muddled and mythologized as Nineteen Eighty-Four, the testimony of personal friends who would not have dreamed of predicting his views, on any subject, might be heeded. "I understood him up to a point," says Author V.S. Pritchett. "It was hard to define him because just when you had fixed on a view, he would contradict it." Novelist Julian Symons remembers "a quality of perversity" in Orwell: "He had a characteristic directness which upset people and made him a lot of enemies." Malcolm Muggeridge recalls a man "who utterly despised intellectuals and people...