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Ten couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were...
Soon everybody was drinking the "intimatist cocktail"-a gin base with an equal dash of curaçao and of an apéritif. Then Sébille rose and spoke. He spoke of his philosophy and the manner in which life should be lived and rosebuds gathered. The intimatists...
A Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said...
By 10:15 a.m., all was over.* Labor had won. The Commons rejected the most important of the Lords' amendments, sent back the entire bill with the traditional Norman French notation: "Ceste bille est remise aux seigneurs avecque des raisons" (i.e., returned to the Lords for further debate).
Students who were graduated Summa cum Laude are Bille C. Carlson '45 (Physics), Milo L. Heideman '47 (Bio-chemical Sciences), Howard S. Hibbett, Jr. '44, (Far Eastern Languages), Walter J. Johnson, Jr. '44 (Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics) and Robert M. Solow '44 (Economics).