Word: ams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malraux also decreed: let there be circuses-and staged the most dazzling Bastille Day celebration France had ever seen. In fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has...
"I am very impressed by the effort made here to help the students to develop their culture outside of the classroom," Duroselle commented. "Another difference is fostered by the competitive examinations which French students must pass at various stages in their education. Only a small percentage pass these exams and...
And he is getting a long-delayed chance to exercise his considerable talents. Last year at Brown he tried repeatedly to interest Sports Illustrated in Bruin quarterback Frank Finney, only to be told, "It's hard to do business with S.I. at Brown--you ought to be at Harvard or...
The French have provoked your writer (November 4), Mr. Rothenberg. French foreign policy, he tells us, lacks content and compounds injured vanity with a facade of anachronistic grandeur. Asserting that the French are a second-rate power, he wishes them to play the part, with help, if necessary, from the...
Booth Led Boldly. Vachel began in Jacksonville, Fla., provisioned with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back...