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...from Architecture. Léger's artistic beginnings were in architecture; he was apprenticed at 16 to an architect in Caen, and he went on to serve in the office of another architect in Paris before he embarked on a painting career of his own. He passed through a brief phase of impressionism, but rejected it as belonging to a "naturally melodious" era gone...
...Living with a foreign family while studying at the universities of Bonn, Caen or Madrid during the junior year's fall and winter quarters. No vacation, the stint involves four daily hours of classroom study, intense language training and a strong dose of cultural shock. "A college can no longer give a broad education in its little oasis," says Hicks. "We're trying to use the whole world as our campus...
...evening last week, the bus pulled into the river port of Caen, famed...
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...Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along the Rhineland...