Word: bre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident...
...trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting an impressive list of important writers to protest his arrest. His trial was dropped, and the saturnine young man returned to France as the dashing hero of a cause célèbre. The Malraux legend was launched, and Malraux was well pleased. "A break in the established order is never the work of chance," he declared. "It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account...
Then, in August 1952, three camping Britons-famed Food Expert Sir Jack Drummond. his wife and his ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth-were found brutally slain on the Dominici farm. The murder became a cause célébre (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952). Biochemist Sir Jack was renowned for his part in setting the nutritional minimums for Britain's wartime rations; the failure to find his killer was an international humiliation for the French police. After long and confused police investigations, Gaston Dominici was carted off to prison. Last week the mahogany-faced old peasant, now 77, stood...
...cause célèbre in Commons...
Peppery Yorkshireman Clarence Henry Willcock, 55, had no intention of making himself a cause célébre. He was simply fed up. When a burly constable armed with all the majesty of entrenched bureaucracy stopped him for speeding in a London suburb last year, Harry's reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry...