Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this reference Hunt's scholarship is off in several directions. John Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels...
...National Merit Scholarship Corp., a new, nonprofit organization set up in Illinois by a group of nationally prominent businessmen and educators, announced the establishment of the largest independent college scholarship program in history. Initial fund: $20.5 million contributed by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York...
...Screams. Paumgartner himself has been a Salzburg institution for 40 years. In the 20's he teamed up with Max Reinhardt, Richard Strauss and Poet-Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal to start the Salzburg Festival. As recording boss Paumgartner showed his capacity for speed as well as scholarship, as he shuttled between his Mozarteum office and the huge reception hall of the 18th 'century Klessheim Castle, where he finds the acoustics ideal for recording. There, wearing black corduroys and sleeveless sweater, he leads his performers through six hours of recording daily. His energy is matched only by his resourcefulness...
...chronicler of Phrax's growth, greatness, decline and fall is both a professor (English, University of California) and a novelist (Storm, Fire), and his chronicle is a work of scholarship as well as a novel. The sets, costumes and psychologies are as authentic as Professor George R. Stewart could make them. But Phrax is imaginary, a city that might have been, but never was. "It is Greek-yes," says Author Stewart in his foreword. "But do not turn to the atlas . . . Do not consider too deeply what century...
...form, Nine Rivers is bewildering-a cluttered collection of sharply etched battle scenes and blurry philosophizings, of scurrility and scholarship, of Kiplingesque snatches of dialogue and Sean O'Casey-style playlets, let into the text whenever some passing gallantry or casual brutality catches the author's eye. The result is hard to read, and harder still to characterize. Yet ten years afterwards, at a time when the spate of war books is slowly drying up. Author Johnston, now an English professor at Mount Holyoke College, has resurrected the realities of war with eerie, acrid pungency...