Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent issue of Soviet Weekly, Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, berated Soviet schools and universities for not producing more and better trained scientists. Much of the trouble, he said, comes from the "divorce" between research institutes and universities. The best scientists avoid becoming university professors because they fear being loaded with so much teaching that they can do little or no research. They prefer the institutes, which do research only. Attempts by education authorities to make the institutes into centers of scientific education have come to little. The institute directors will not cooperate because...
...students to see a film "that does not in any way reflect the views of the students or faculty insofar as it purports to be historic fact rather than political interpretation." Since when do professors or departments have to clear their views with their students? Since when has an academician been prevented from voicing an opinion, whether on riots or whatnot...
...there must be some adults who were happy kids, and occasionally a writer is bold enough to stand and be counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...
...scholar then proceeds to drop all the double counting out of Soviet output from 1928 on and after somewhat sketchy calculations sets his own revised growth figures. The Soviet habit of multiple counting, he finds, has grown rather than abated over the years. By Academician Strumilin's tables, Soviet industrial output grew threefold between 1945 and 1956, not fourfold as official figures state. And net growth from...
...found near by. No matter: word arrives that another cousin is coming. It all sounds like an insane parody of bedroom farce, but Playwright Sagan wrote it with skill, wit and a minor wisdom as dry as an eight-year-old fig leaf. Virtually all the critics, including hoary Academician Frangois Mauriac, praised Chateau. Dissenters could point to an occasional over-cleverness and seize on one of Sagan's lines for their text. "Intelligence has become a terrible thing in our time," notes one character, perhaps speaking of the author. "It torments you, it irritates others, it convinces neither...