Word: sevcenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, for almost all of his adult life, Sevcenko has been digging through the labyrinthine texts and manuscripts of the age, starting with his coming of age in wartime Eastern Europe 40 years...
...only son of Ukrainian emigres, Sevcenko was born just outside Warsaw in 1922. After his graduation from a lyceum in 1939, the 17-year-old Sevcenko seized on a chance to leave that beleagured city and his job of selling books on the street...
...much better off than most of the people of my generation," remembers Sevcenko, speaking from his book-lined Widener study. "You have to have had a certain amount of luck and instinct for survival to survive through those years--even in a relatively sheltered existence...
...true survivor, Sevcenko started a long trek west as Germany began to collapse, stop-pint first in Belgium, where in 1949 he earned a second doctorate, again in classical philology at the Catholic University of Louvain...
...ever since then, Sevcenko has added his long and varied academic career to this sparsely populated field, most recently as a tenured professor in the Classics Department completing his first decade at Harvard...