John Ashmead, the Glossary
John Ashmead (1917–1992) was an American novelist, Naval Intelligence officer, and professor of English.[1]
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39 relations: Asia Society, Athens, Beate Sirota Gordon, Claudine Monteil, Dave Barry, Donald Keene, Frank Conroy (author), Fulbright Program, G. V. Desani, Harvard University, Haverford College, Iain Crichton Smith, India, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Isaac Asimov, Isoroku Yamamoto, John Davison (composer), Kyoto, L. Sprague de Camp, Loomis Chaffee School, Lowell House, Marion J. Levy Jr., Masao Kume, Modern Language Association, Osaka, Otis Cary, Phi Beta Kappa, Philadelphia Bulletin, Purushottama Lal, Robert Burns, Serge Elisséeff, Simone de Beauvoir, Taipei, The Atlantic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trap Door Spiders, Varanasi, Wright Morris, Yasunari Kawabata.
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Beate Sirota Gordon
Beate Sirota Gordon (October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate.
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Claudine Monteil
Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.
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Dave Barry
David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.
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Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
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Frank Conroy (January 15, 1936 – April 6, 2005) was an American author.
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Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.
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G. V. Desani
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani (1909–2000), known as G.V. Desani, was a British-Indian journalist, lecturer, writer and educator.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Haverford College
Haverford College is a private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
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Iain Crichton Smith
Iain Crichton Smith, (Gaelic: Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
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John Davison (composer)
John H. Davison (31 May 1930 – 5 March 1999) was an American composer and pianist. John Ashmead and John Davison (composer) are Haverford College faculty.
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Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature.
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Loomis Chaffee School
The Loomis Chaffee School (LC or Loomis) is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, Connecticut, seven miles north of Hartford.
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Lowell House
Lowell House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located at 10 Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River.
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Marion J. Levy Jr.
Marion Joseph Levy Jr. (December 12, 1918 – May 26, 2002) was an American sociologist noted for his work on modernization theory.
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Masao Kume
was a Japanese popular playwright, novelist and haiku poet (under the pen-name of Santei) active during the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
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Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).
Otis Cary
Otis Cary (October 20, 1921 April 14, 2006) was an American Japanologist.
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Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
The Philadelphia Bulletin (or The Bulletin as it was commonly known as) was a daily evening newspaper published from 1847 to 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Purushottama Lal
Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010), commonly known as P. Lal, was an Indian poet, author, translator, professor and publisher.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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Serge Elisséeff
Serge Elisséeff (born Sergei Grigorievich Eliseyev; 13 January 188913 April 1975) was a Russian-French scholar, Japanologist, and professor at Harvard University.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
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Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer, often referred to simply as The Inquirer, is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Trap Door Spiders
The Trap Door Spiders are a literary, male-only eating, drinking, and arguing society in New York City, with a membership historically composed of notable science fiction personalities.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Wright Morris
Wright Marion Morris (January 6, 1910 – April 25, 1998) was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist.
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Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashmead
Also known as Ashmead, John.