Word: nathanisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...College of Wooster produced the famed scientist brothers Compton (Wilson, Karl, Arthur). And Lawrence College in northern Wisconsin is a hatchery of university presidents. One former teacher, Victor L. Butterfield, heads Connecticut's topnotch Wesleyan. One former president, Henry M. Wriston, later took over Brown. A successor, Nathan M. Pusey, went on to Harvard...
...time. The news was a new Harvard chair, the Irving Babbitt Professorship of Comparative Literature, to be occupied by one of Babbitt's last Harvard students, Critic Harry Levin, 47 (James Joyce: A Critical Introduction). It was an honor proposed by another former Babbitt student. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey. Countless other students, 'from Poet T. S. Eliot to Pundit Walter Lippmann, would doubtless second it. For nearly 40 years such students jammed Babbitt's French literature classes, and by now his own general contempt for them is a matter that aging men may forgive dead giants...
...years almost to the day since Nathan Milstein made his New York debut. Now 55, he belongs to the tradition of such great Russian-Jewish violinists as Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, all of whom were, like Milstein, trained by the late great Leopold Auer. In the generation that has passed since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, February seventh, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
Against the background of Soviet success in projecting the image of power and U.S. concern about that image, Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. and General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went before the Senate and House Armed Services committees to explain the new $41 billion defense budget. "The way they presented it, it was encouraging," said Georgia's Richard B. Russell, Chairman of the Senate committee. In his testimony, Gates unwrapped a big and pleasant surprise: a new U.S. intelligence estimate of future Soviet missile strength, he said, had sharply narrowed the expected "missile...