Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jean-Luc Godard, 36, director of some of the French New Wave's most imaginative films (Breathless), and Anne Wiazemsky, 20, star in his forthcoming La Chinoise and granddaughter of Nobel prizewinning Academician Francois Mauriac; he for the second time; in Begnins, Switzerland...
...position John Monro has held for the past eight years is very difficult to define. It sounds impressive, but its power and prestige are ambiguous. Unlike Yale, where the Dean of the College is an academician who presides over both the scholarly and social sides of undergraduate life, the Harvard dean does not share both roles. The College at Yale is more a more distinct academic unit than it is at Harvard; here the College and the Graduate School merge, and the man in charge is clearly the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Despite his almost scholarly attention to the day-to-day business of foreign affairs, Bohlen is certainly no theorist. His speech lacks the polish of an academician. He prefers an earthy anecdote to a well-turned phrase and would rather parry questions than deliver a prepared talk...
...French army. He became fascinated by Viet Nam, and turned the task of understanding and explaining the agony, hopes, failures and confusion of the torn country into a personal mission. Armed with master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Syracuse, he became at once a journalist, academician, lecturer and pundit...
...country, where he survives under the nickname "Mr. 100,000 Volts," Becaud is more popular than Beaujolais. At his February concert at Paris' Olympia music hall, where he holds the record for most performances, his visitors included Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of the French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening...