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Despite beliefs that artistic freedom has not flourished under the Soviet regime, Hugh McLean in "Slavic 156" examines Russian literature since 1917 and turns up some surprising examples of great writing. The course, conducted in English, meets in New Lecture Hall 8. Maxim Gorky is very much in evidence, as is the Soviet Government...
...several years, Karpovich was more pleased than surprised. He would have been shocked indeed, had someone told him that this chance meeting would remove him from Russia for the rest of his life, and that it would eventually give him the title of Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at a place called Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...despite his influence and renown in the field of history Karpovich presently occupies a chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and he is probably best known at the College as lecturer in Slavic 150, a survey of modern Russian literature. The big change began about six years ago, when he was asked to teach a literature course and obligingly agreed--although his only qualification was that he had "read the books and liked them." Since then he has spent more and more time studying the nineteenth century authors about whom he lectures, but he still considers himself primarily a historian...
...winners include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, for studies on educational psychology in the light of contemporary work on cognition-perception, learning, and thinking; Dimitri Cizevsky, lecture on Slavic, for studies of the philosophy of Comenius and Slavic baroque literature; Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, for studies of the abbey and Monastery at Cluny; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies of the conflict of the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state...
...riggers worked in a high wind to place the 13-ft.-high group on a temporary wooden base, it became clear that by social consciousness Epstein meant compassion. The central, seated figure, which Epstein calls "Fate itself," is a long-torsoed woman with high-cheeked, Slavic features, stretching forth her arms. On the right stands another female figure swathed in heavy, claylike drapery, receiving in her arms a cadaverous figure of a man, which, explains Epstein, "is man-child returning to its eternal mother, which is Mother Earth. It encompasses life and death." Still to be erected at week...