Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since existentialism includes a large number of literary and semi-literary works, the question arises as to what literature is "existential" and what is not. Professor Earle regards Sartre's literary work as "realist" rather than existential. "For my money," he said, "Samuel Beckett is doing the most authentic existentialist writing...
...prize honors John Henry Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy. It was established by colleagues of the noted economist on the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and others of his associates. Williams served as Adviser to the Bank for nearly 25 years...
...Professor Greg was an old hand at departmental politics, but he was also a great scholar. About to die, Greg decided to play a splendid little joke on the "academic community." The story, which carries a subtle overtone of Shavian irony, took place at a fictional university, but the characters are familiar: the smooth and politic department chairman, the impressive "Great Ideas" lecturer with little scholarship in his background, the pale, imitative young instructor. Perhaps the tale is not entirely uninteresting to officers and students of Harvard University...
...Emeritus Professor Homer Greg was eighty-five, and so far as he or his doctor could tell, he might live to be one hundred and five. He was the despair of the business manager of the University, who month after month for twenty years, had mailed him a retirement check. The business manager himself was sixty-four, and, although he never allowed himself to say so, his having to make out checks for Professor Greg was a piece of unfinished business that he would like to see settled before he himself retired. The gray-haired woman who stamped the cards...
...book-stores, they saw him go by, carrying the bag tightly under his right arm.... They knew he was a widower, and that he did his own cooking and his own housework. Occasionally one of the students rang his doorbell late in the afternoon and asked if Professor Greg was free to help him with a research problem on which he was working. Invariably he was invited in and given tea and macaroons, and from some invisible card file in his head Professor Greg listed all of the authorities who might prove useful...