Word: scholarshipped
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After a stint at Notre Dame, he went back to Italy for another two years on a Fulbright scholarship...
This is the first year the scholarship, the amount of which has not been publicly disclosed, has been divided between two students, Everett said...
...accent, manners and tastes of his social betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three...
...Donald's scholarship is excellent; hardly a paragraph is without a quote from Lincoln or a contemporary of Lincoln's who dealt closely with him. However Donald's emphasis on documentation makes it difficult for the reader to forget, even momentarily, that this a historical biography. The reader never feels really inside the President's world and sharing what the president experiences...
...Curator of Drawings William Robinson. On the contrary, the most perfect exhibit ever at the Fogg, he says, was a collection of landscapes by Dutch master Jacob van Ruisdael that was shown in 1982. "Director Seymour Slive successfully combined a major artist's unfamiliar, though brilliant, work with exemplary scholarship, and 2,500 people came on a single afternoon...