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...Wiktor Weintraub, visiting lecturer on Slavic languages and literature, plans to stay at Harvard for his study of the history of Polish literature...
Jakobson developed walking as a hobby on his frequent study trips to primitive central Russia. He was born in Tsarist Moscow and a childhood interest in the structure of poetry led him to his present field-Slavic linguistics. As a student in Russia he was outstanding and had achieved a knowledge of some obscure Silberian dialects by the time most people enter college. Jakobson soon became disillusioned with the new Communist government and in 1920 moved to Prague...
When the University enlarged its Slavic department in 1949, Jakobson and his wife came to Harvard-he as a professor of Slavic and she as a lecturer in Czechoslovakian. But Harvard got more than two new additions to its Slavic staff since most of the devoted graduate students who were working with Jakobson at Columbia followed the scholar up to Cambridge...
...wife have settled in an apartment on Prescott Street. Typical of a scholar's living quarters, the flat's living room is dominated by a massive desk littered with papers. Books scattered through the room are beginnings to collect under the windows. At night, all the local Slavic students trickle into the apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand, or by running a hand through...