Word: death
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duroselle's main fear for the infant Fifth Constitution was, in fact, the death of de Gaulle. The prime minister is so strong under the present governmental system, he said, that if the president was weaker than de Gaulle, there could be a conflict between the two executives...
...With the death of Professor Derwent Whittlesey in 1956, the once-flourishing program of geographical studies at the University ended completely. The Geographical Institute stood empty for two years until it was finally taken over by the Department of Mathematics, another symbol of the demise of geographical studies...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Jolted by the death of his only son during a prep-school field trip accident, a widower harangues his son's teacher until he finds one of the boy's poems and learns the bitter truth about himself. The Last Autumn stars Pat Hingle and Alexis Smith...
Long before his death in 1931. Poet Vachel Lindsay was out of date; chanting about the heartland seemed naive to readers caught by the puzzles of The Waste Land. In the age of Eliot. Lindsay was remembered chiefly as the eccentric and faintly embarrassing author of two throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death...