Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library or laboratory, he is likely to be repaid almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special...
...Seymour does not define the posture that the public should assume before doctors of philosophy, but implies that it should be at least as deferential as the one employed before doctors of medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character...
...kidnaped by the Russians and the East German satellite state when their helicopter came down in East Germany June 7, were produced by the Communists for a surprise press conference in Dresden. On hand at the conference: a crowd of Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through spokesmen for the Russians: U.S. recognition-actual or implied-of Communist satellite...
...after day, solemn, black-browed Seymour ("Top") Topping, 36, chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Berlin, pestered officials of Communist East Germany for a seemingly impossible story: an interview with the nine U.S. soldiers held incommunicado in East Germany since their helicopter was forced down last month (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). One night last week Topping's phone rang, and a voice said with no explanation: "Please come to the East Berlin Foreign Ministry tomorrow morning...
...victory dramatically underscored that there is more first-rate native instrumental talent in the U.S. than in the whole of Europe. Moreover, the talent is younger. In Cliburn's generation there are at least nine pianists of equal native ability: Byron Janis, 30, Gary Graffman, 29, Seymour Lipkin, 31, Jacob Lateiner, 30, Claude Frank, 32, John Browning, 24, Eugene Istomin, 32, Leon Fleisher, 31, and Canada's Glenn Gould, 25, who has played widely in the U.S. By contrast, Europe has a small handful of young pianists -Austria's Friedrich Gulda and Paul Badura-Skoda, Poland...