Word: acad
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...French high cultural circles, mere excellence is not considered the whole guarantee of immortality. The distinguished men who at any one time occupy the 40 chairs of the famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many of France's greatest writers have been barred from the academy for reasons that had little to do with their greatness. The academy's mythical "41st chair," reserved by legend for those who never made the grade, has been occupied by such greats as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose loose...
Last week the 34 living members of the ancient Académie took a bold step in amending its reputation for crusty conservatism by receiving into their august midst a literary figure as contentious as he is unpredictable. The new member: Jean Cocteau, poet, painter, novelist, dancer, movie producer (Blood of a Poet), playwright, poseur and talker. Now 66 and still savoring his reputation as France's esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants...
Once past the barrier, the life of an Immortal is less taxing. It consists largely in collecting an annual stipend of 60,000 francs ($171) and showing up every Thursday in the Académie chamber beneath the great dome of the Institut de France, there to pursue in quiet deliberation tasks ordained by Richelieu 320 years ago. Chief of these tasks is that of "keeping the French language elegant" by constant revision of an official dictionary. It is slow work. The Immortals, though their average age is 73, are in no hurry. The last revised edition of their dictionary...
...Boston Univ. 2:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 7 Princeton 10:30 a.m. Wed., Nov. 11 Springfield at Springfield 3:00 p.m. Sat., Nov. 14 Brown 12:00 Fri., Nov. 20 Yale at New Haven 2:00 p.m. FRESHMAN SOCCER Sat., Oct., 3 Tabor Acad. 2:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 7 Milton Acad. at Milton 3:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 10 Belmont Hill School 2:00 p.m. Sat., Oct. 17 Tufts 2:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 21 M.I.T. at Tech Field 3:00 p.m. Fri., Oct. 23 Dartmouth 2:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 28 Exeter at Exeter...
Last year he imported from Australia cultures of the virus that causes myxomatosis. He caught a few wild rabbits, inoculated them with the disease, and turned them loose. Results were so satisfactory that he sent to the Académic d'Agriculture de France a learned paper entitled "A New Process of Limiting the Pullulation of Rabbits...