Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations, the domestic power was placed in the hands of elected assemblies, which choose their own cabinet ministers to tax and run each country. Over all these is a Grand Council, which sits in Dakar and coordinates the activities of the entire area...
English 181, "Narration in the English Novel," and English 279, "Dreiser," both of which will be offered in the Spring, will be taught by Monroe Engel '42, assistant professor of English, and M. Arnavon, professor of English at the University of Dakar, respectively...
...escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European idea...
...lecture, Morison asserted that Churchill was "peripheral-minded" during the war. He criticized Sir Winston's planned landing between Norway and Dakar, stating that "from most of his favorite targets you could not go anywhere...
...would-be adventurers in the Care Capriccio should get a big bang out of "A Far Place." It is by an ex-MacLeish student, who spent two years in Accra, Dakar, and Abidjan working for Texaco, and has also played factory hand, circus roustabout, department store salesman, U.P. Staff correspondent, and Associate Editor of the Paris Review. He also spent a year writing "A Far Place," in Paris, before becoming a Barnard English teacher...