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...December 1941, at the age of 58, along with more than 800,000 other victims who starved during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows in Russia, until last summer...
...Gomes said, the reform will doubtless require significant funding...
...book—“Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War”—has had on her work as an administrator. She said that the book influenced the way she thought about ways to bring about reform at Radcliffe. As the interview came to a close, Faust took the opportunity to mention the factors which, in her opinion, make Harvard one of the nation’s leading and most influential universities. Faust said that Harvard allows students to realize “how extraordinary people...
...interviews this week, many professors were already looking ahead to the next stage of curricular reform...
...than Summers. “I think women have the aptitude to do anything, and that includes being president of Harvard,” she said. Faust said that Bok had presided over a year of healing. She added that she was impressed by two recent committee reports to reform general education at the College and improve the quality of teaching. “I think that the committee has made a real, concerted effort to address many of the issues that were raised by the Faculty in discussions during the fall,” Faust said in the nine...