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This week, Stanislaw Baranczak finally got the news he--and Harvard--had been waiting for. The Polish government, after denying seven previous requests for a passport since 1978, gave the dissident poet permission to travel to the United States and take a three-year associate professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
Donald E. Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, first approached the 33-year-old Poznan native about a job here in the fall of 1977, after Wiktor Weintraub announced plans to retire from the Jurzykowski Professorship of Polish Languages and Literatures, the only such chair in the United States. The offer of a teaching post to Baranczak--who accepted it in March 1978--was made strictly on the basis of his academic credentials, which include several volumes of poetry, literary criticism and English translation...
...Poznan, Poland, was granted a passport by the Polish government this week after seven refusals. A founding member in 1976 of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, Poland's most prominent dissident group. Baranczak first applied for the passport in March, 1978, when he accepted a three-year associate professorship in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...March 1978, Baranczak accepted a three-year associate professorship in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Since then he had on seven separate occasions requested travel documents--most recently last October--and was turned down each time...
...professorship, which enables prominent chemists selected by the Chemistry Department to spend between three months and a year at Harvard, was established last month in memory of Robert Burns Woodward. Woodward, a Nobel Laureate regarded as the greatest chemist of his time, taught at Harvard for nearly 40 years...