Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evaluation is being supervised by Vladimir Alexandrov, head tutor in the department, in conjunction with the Slavic and East European Language and Area Center. The center "wants a general overview of what is going on in our department." Alexandrov said yesterday...
...Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has asked undergraduate concentrators to recommend improvements by Thursday that will help an inter-departmental committee make changes in the concentration's courses and requirements...
Donald E. Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, which offered Baranczak the position, cautioned that there was "no news" on whether the poet would be allowed to leave Poland. Rucjan Nieczkowski, a spokesman for the Polish Embassy in Washington, said he knew of no change in the situation...
...year-old poet, essayist and literary critic, Baranczak in March 1978 accepted an offer, which has remained open, of an associate professorship in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...world. Works such as Selected Poems (Seabury Press, New York) and Bells in Winter (Ecco Press, New York) have long attracted glowing attention from other writers and poets, especially those who share Milosz's state of spiritual and political exile. Says fellow Pole Jerzy Kosinski: "He remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches is an awfully sober version of Stoicism which does not ignore...