Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history used to seem beyond resuscitation. Seventeenth century Venetian painting was one of them. Nobody bothered about it. It was an orphan, huddled between the father figures of the Venetian cinquecento-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-and the effervescent grandeur of the Tiepolos in the 18th century. Even today, when scholarship and the art market have opened every mass grave in search of something to write about and sell, the names of painters like Damiano Mazza or Alessandro Turchi do not make the pulse race...
Last month President Bok called together the presidents of seven eastern colleges to propose a coordinated, intercollegiate scholarship program for black South Africans...
...scholarship program would bring colleges, institutes, foundations and even corporations together in a concerted effort to bring South African blacks to American campuses...
...comment on this question, and indeed on the entire program, a representative from the Ford Foundation said Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program. President Bok, coincidentally, gave an honorary degree to Tutu last June...
...foundations, Stevens said, are familiar with groups and committees in South Africa and can help identify those that would be most effective in finding students for the scholarship program...