Word: warburg
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Sekler, who has held his VAC post since 1963, was born in Vienna, studied at the Warburg Institute of London University, and received his Ph. D. in 1948. He received an honorary M.A. from Harvard...
...millionaires' conference," as it was called, was almost as evangelical as it was economic. British Banker Sir Siegmund Warburg announced a new holding company that would pump an initial $100 million in capital into Israeli businesses. Sir Isaac Wolfson, head of Britain's Great Universal Stores, personally got fellow delegates to sign individual pledges of $24,000 to set up a company to insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving...
...academic world. It is wrong, accordingly, to attribute to repression what, in all fairness, must be blamed on ill-advised interference and the resulting ineptitude. On the assumption that God prefers the latter to wicked intent one is right to ask for charitable judgment. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
Whether a Godard deserves a festival is a matter of some critical dispute. To Richard Roud, author of a worshipful new study of his movies (Godard; Seeker & Warburg), the director is "one of the most important artists of our time," worthy of comparison, with Joyce and Vermeer. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker calls Godard "the most exciting director working in movies today." On the other hand, Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic describes him as "a magician who makes elaborate uninspired gestures and then pulls out of the hat precisely nothing...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, said Wednesday that the next few weeks will bring "the disappearance of anything that can effectively be called a government" in South Vietnam...