Word: scholares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jakobson and his wife came to Harvard-he as a professor of Slavic and she as a lecturer in Czechoslovakian. But Harvard got more than two new additions to its Slavic staff since most of the devoted graduate students who were working with Jakobson at Columbia followed the scholar up to Cambridge...
Nicolas Slonimsky is a Boston composer and musicologist who long ago reached a firm conclusion about music critics: they have always had trouble getting used to new music. Scholar Slonimsky's further conclusion: modern critics are not nearly so vituperative about their dislikes as the oldtimers used...
...Negro universities to install chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. ¶ Appointment of the Week: Courtney Craig Smith, 36, to succeed John W. Nason (now head of the Foreign Policy Association) as ninth president of Swarthmore College. A graduate of Harvard. Smith studied 17th century English literature as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, returned to Harvard for his Ph.D., in 1946 joined the faculty of Princeton University. When Swarthmore found him, he was American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees - a position he took over from Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore's seventh president and grand old man. ¶ Resignation of the Week...
...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
...kicks a stone "downhill, Zorba turns to the scholar and asks: "Boss, did you see that? On slopes, stones come to life again." Sometimes he is a mythmaker: "My grandfather had a white beard and used to wear rubber shoes. One day he leapt from the roof of our house, but when his feet touched the ground he bounced like a ball and bounced up higher than the house, and went higher and higher still till he disappeared in the clouds. That is how my grandfather died...