Word: brogan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet Saint-John Perse-who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1960. The current anniversary issue features a political reminiscence by Dean Acheson and a study of Anglo-American relations by Historian Denis Brogan...
France breeds intellectuals the way Australia breeds tennis players-and follows their careers with almost equal attention. "The French tend to think of the Russian Revolution as a step in the intellectual development of André Gide," cracked British Historian D. W. Brogan recently, "and of the Chinese Revolution as an incident in the literary career of André Malraux...
...Brattle Street Forum will discuss "The City and History" next Tuesday in Loeb Experimental Theatre at 4:20 p.m. participants will be Dennis W. Brogan, professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge; John E. Burchard, Dean of Humanities and Social Science at M.I.T.; Norton E. Long, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University; Carl E. Schorsks, professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley; and Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo...
Conference papers will consider cities dating back as far as the 15th century and from all areas of the world. Among the scholars are a Japanese-Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo--and two eminent Englishmen--Dennis brogan, professor of Political Science at Cambridge, and Sir John Summerson, an Architeotural historian and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London...
...France, by D. W. Brogan. Like an aging actress. France has lived on the memories of past applause, at Versailles with the Sun King, at Austerlitz with Napoleon, in the Age of Reason with Voltaire. As distinguished Historian Brogan sees it, Charles de Gaulle is gradually teaching his people the importance of living in the 20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking...