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...argued before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week by the distinguished career diplomat who is generally regarded as the architect of America's postwar policy of containment against Communist aggression in Europe. George F. Kennan, who retired from the State Department in 1963 to return to his professorship at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, believes that resisting Communist aggression in Southeast Asia is "not our business." Excerpts...
...much ado about little. The of fice at stake was Oxford's chair of poetry, which, as one commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
...professorship, which is considered one of the greatest honors that can be given to an English-speaking poet, has a five-year term and pays $840 for three lectures a year. The lectures are allowed to be on any subject, but they are usually criticisms, not discussions of the mechanics of writing poetry...
Daniel P. Moynihan, former assistant secretary of labor who is reportedly being considered for a professorship on the Faculty of Education, will probably also be a senior member if he comes to Harvard...
According to the Periscope column of this week's Newsweek magazine Moynihan in under consideration for a 'four-hatted professorship," which would include all of these positions...