Word: acad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restaurant Drouant, Place Gaillon. Monthly meeting place of the French literary club, the Académie Goncourt. Excellent seafood (coquille St. Jacques gratinée, lobster thermidor) and desserts (peach Melba, orange Jeanette). About...
...trying to walk his mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking, eat his opium, and yet wind up a middle-class immortal, a member of that superrespectable college of venerables, the Académie Française...
...freshmen meet Springfield at 6 p.m. Home Events Basketball vs. Springfield 8 p.m. Freshmen vs. Springfield 6 p.m. Fencing vs. CCNY 2 p.m. Freshmen Hockey vs. Exeter 4 p.m. Squash vs. Army 2 p.m. Fr. Squash vs. Exeter 2 p.m. Swimming vs. Navy 4 p.m. Fresh. vs. Williston Acad...
...remark suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which a man adjusts his boyhood dreams to the new conditions of France. Known as "The Immortals," the academy's haughty members are not too proud for infighting either, gained a publicity jump...
Triumph of Turgidity. Last week the results were unwrapped, and with a flourish De Gaulle invited France's 120-member Académie des Sciences and all living Nobel prizewinners for the first preview. The effect was staggering. France's huge official warehouse had been combed through for the original Empire-style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches...