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...pleasure to read your long and richly appreciative article on Nabokov. I feel honored that you should credit me with some incidental part in the American recognition of his work. But full credit for the earliest sponsorship of his English writing should go to his first publisher in this country, James Laughlin IV, of New Directions. While enjoying the vogue that culminates in your story, let us not forget the special insight and the generous risks that this small firm has exercised on behalf of unrecognized talent...
There has been some confusion as to the original sponsorship of the proposal which has been called the "Teaching Fellows Proposal." As procedural chairman of the Striking Teaching Fellows, I would like to point out that the body has endorsed no specific set of demands, and, in fact, is divided between supporting the Eight Demands and those of the Radical Restructuring Group. Ralph Pochoda
...will be his fourth film since he came to Cambridge from New York five years ago. (The other three were Sinister Madonna, 1967, the first student film made at Harvard in 18 years; Desire in the Fire, 1967; and 3 Sisters, 1968, like the new film, made under the sponsorship of WGBH...
That conclusion seemed almost as unlikely as the conference site itself: Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. Meeting under the joint sponsorship of the Vatican and the University of California at Berkeley, and financed by the Fiat auto company's Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, two dozen scholars from eight countries set out to explore "The Culture of Unbelief." In their collective view, the world's supposed infidels are more sinned against than sinning-and sometimes more religious than those who call them unbelievers...
...Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest's own second violinist, Alexander Schneider; its name was supplied by Budapest Violist Boris Kroyt, who had once played with a now defunct European quartet called the Guarneri (after the 18th century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly handsome bachelor, is a Los Angeles-born virtuoso and 1958 Leventritt Competition winner. Second Violinist John Dalley, 33, and Violist Michael Tree, 46, are both talented...