Sentences with phrase «american lecture tour»
This was why he returned to Germany in July 1939 from an American lecture tour which friends had sponsored in order to protect him.
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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Things get tiresome when Morgan Freeman enters the pic as the respected know - it - all American science Professor Norman, on a lecture tour in Paris to spin his far - out theories about the brain and lament that mankind only uses ten percent of its brain while dolphins use twenty.
He regularly lectures aboard cruise ships, has been a faculty member of Cunard Cruise Lines and Holland American Cruise Line, and currently escorts tours for National Geographic Expeditions and other organizations.
In season, tour Thomas Cole's home, hike to one of the magnificent views that he painted, see exhibitions of American landscape painting, watch an original film, browse the gift shop, take in a lecture or celebrate at one of our special events.
Other ongoing programs include a free printmaking workshop that provides artists and amateurs 10 weeks of instruction in basic printmaking techniques; an educational services program offering tours and discussions, led by local work - study students, for school, college and community groups visiting the museum; and poetry readings, film programs, music, dance and dramatic presentations, lectures, workshops and slide discussions on Afro - American art.