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...linguist, Pound could read French, German, Italian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Russian. At age 76, he learned Chinese after his appointment as advisor to the Nationalist Government of China...
BORIS MARGO-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. In Memoriam, one of Margo's "sculptured canvases," is a tall (eight-foot) tribute to President Kennedy. On canvas stretched over wood, the artist traced an elaborate calligraphy with sand. At first it seems to be Sanskrit, but on study English words emerge. Other pieces, of varying shape and material, employ other languages. Through June...
Masatochi Nagatomi, assistant professor of Buddhist Studies, who has been promoted to associate professor. A Japanese expert in Pall, Tibetan and Sanskrit, he will be associated with the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...probably the most popular inside his own country, partly because he has an aura both of divine kingship and grass-roots politics. Sihanouk succeeded to the ancient Khmer throne in 1941 at 19, when the French were still firmly in control of Cambodia. Although his name, from the Sanskrit, means "lionhearted," he was a pampered prince, fussed over by a covey of nannies; not long ago, to illustrate the importance of milk to a conference of his economic advisers, he introduced them to his old wet nurse...
Harvard now looks forward to a rather Spartan menu of courses dealing with India: Social Sciences 116 (a half course introduction to the Civilization of India) and Anthropology 140ab (a course to be given the year after next on Significant Aspects of the Social Organization of India. Sanskrit and Pali (neither of which is spoken) are the two language offerings in the area. There are two courses devoting a few weeks to Indian art: Fine Arts 13 and Humanities 120. This all adds up to one full undergraduate course (to be given the year after next) entirely devoted to Indian...