Word: aix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four months he worked in solitude. "It is going badly," he would tell friends at his favorite café in Aix. "It is this salaud Velásquez. If at least he was an intelligent painter. But no, it is Velásquez, with all that implies of everything and of nothing...
Earle's scholarly interest in existentialism took form in 1947, when he spent a year studying under Gaston Berger, a leading European phenomenologist. Existentialism was "very much in the air" in Europe at that time, and Earle went on to receive his degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles in 1948. Before going to France, he studied at the University of Chicago. "I studied in the classical tradition," he comments. "Chicago is a fine place for that sort of scholarship, but it does not have a very creative atmosphere...
...Temper. In Aix-en-Provence, France, Joseph Bertrand, 46, angered when his house was awarded to his wife in a divorce suit, burned it down...
...addition to the University's ever-growing collection of dinosaur eggs will arrive from Paris by air today. Weighing 20 pounds, the egg is a gift from the French city of Aix-En-Provence...
...members of the Boulangerie the world over, the guests launched into an exuberant chorus composed for the occasion by Francis Poulenc. "Vive Nadia, the dear Nadia Boulanger, the very dear Nadia, Al-le-lu-jah!" Later, musicians performed another birthday tribute: a cantata by Composer Jean Françaix for five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like a priest, intoned, "St. Nadia, protect...