Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more educational was the composition of his memoirs. Painstakingly set down in elongated script, the memoirs were written in a classic prose Frenchmen had not seen in a long time?precise yet lyrical, stamped with honor, revealing the essential selflessness of a man dedicated to his nation's grandeur. On the strength of this literary achievement, France's intellectuals?who do so much to set their country's political tone?for the first time gave De Gaulle their wholehearted admiration.* And in the act of reducing his life to book form, the general reviewed his past mistakes, sketched...
...Dimension. Ohio-born Dr. May, 49, a fellow of Manhattan's cumbrously named William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, got his Ph.D. from Columbia with a now classic thesis, The Meaning of Anxiety. He followed it with the more popular Man's Search for Himself, published in 1953. Already applying existential principles in his practice, he then learned what European analysts were doing, began working on Existence. Meanwhile, the confluence of German and Swiss Daseinsanalyse with a more literally existential school developed in Spain, France and Vienna led to the omnibus Barcelona Congress...
...immediate reaction of many politicians and businessmen was to call for the classic remedies. They cried for tax cuts, a mammoth government make-work program, many more billions for old-age pensions and unemployment aid. All year long the Eisenhower Administration staunchly resisted temptations to buy its way out of recession, although it speeded up and enlarged present housing and social security programs as antirecession measures. It gave the economy's carefully built-in stabilizers a chance to work and relied on the nation's own basic good health to recover from the slump...
Center: Walter Jackson ("Jackie") Burkett, 21, Auburn; 6 ft. 4 in., 220 lbs. Junior. Major: forestry. Superb blocker with good speed, built in classic mold of pro-type middle guard; sure to be eagerly sought despite occasionally troublesome shoulder injury...
...Gift of the Magi (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler has written the songs for this version of O. Henry's sentimental classic; with Sally Ann Howes, currently Broadway's My Fair Lady, and Hollywood's Gordon MacRae...