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This week, Stanislaw Baranczak finally got the news he--and Harvard--had been waiting for. The Polish government, after denying seven previous requests for a passport since 1978, gave the dissident poet permission to travel to the United States and take a three-year associate professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...Soviet Union in the spring of 1947, when the staff of the Carnegie Foundation first approached Harvard with the idea of establishing a program for Russian studies. At that time--less than two years after the end of the Second World War--the University did not even have a Slavic Department. Although a few people of Russian descent taught at Harvard, they were mostly teaching other subjects. A similar situation existed at other universities throughout the country. Here and there someone was interested in Russian history and literature, but compared to the study of other countries--even China--Soviet studies...
George G. Grabowicz, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, said yesterday. "We are all very happy to hear the long-awaited news, but we are apprehensive as to the security of [Baranczak's] coming." Grabowicz said the release may be part of a government effort to keep control over other dissidents...
...Polish government this week after seven refusals. A founding member in 1976 of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, Poland's most prominent dissident group. Baranczak first applied for the passport in March, 1978, when he accepted a three-year associate professorship in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...want to express my deep satisfaction and anticipation of seeing him," Donald E. Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...