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...Slavic Languages...
Fool! Donkey! Ass!" Papa Wiener was a character in his own right. Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...
...England's Manchester University as a chemistry lecturer at the age of 32, loved England and English ways. He moved about banquet halls, diplomatic conferences and secret meetings with the aplomb of a great lord, wore an air that had in it traces of Jewish ghetto life, Slavic exoticism and British rectitude. He had none of the frugal, self-denying asceticism of some nationalists. He loved good tailoring, fine linen, good food. He was probably the only President in history with a complete change of clothes in London, Geneva, New York and Tel Aviv...
Harold L. Klagstad Jr., of Winnetka, Illinois, A.B. Harvard, 1948, A.M. Harvard University, 1951, (Slavic Languages and Literatures...
Perhaps the most important function of the Modern Language Center is as a meeting place for various language and literature organizations of the University. Clubs using the Center are the Club Hispaico, the Cihrcolo Italiano, the German Literary Conference, the Comparative Literature Group, the Linguistics Club, the Slavic Society, and Luno-Brazilian Club