Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objected to the Dutch bishops' defense of the now familiar idea of episcopal collegiality-that is, the bishops' sharing ruling power over the church with the Pope. Rome also informed Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht that the principal author of the encyclical, the brilliant Dominican speculative theologian Edouard Schillebeeck, would not be acceptable as a theological adviser to the Council's Preparatory Commissions...
...Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest rank of France's Legion of Honor...
...family's reunion is due partly to the disappearance of an older and stiffer generation, but largely to the smoothing influence of today's most influential member, France's Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild.* It was Guy (hard g as in geese) who, taking over the family's French bank during the disorder of war and defeat, changed its character from stewardship of the family fortune to expansive modern banking. Where the bank's previous aim in this century had been to pursue safe obscurity, under Guy it entered the mainstream of modern business...
...between the former actress and her prideful mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Brissac, had been strained for a decade. Last June the two stunned Liliane by quietly selling their Schneider shares (about 8% of the total) to a Belgian group led by Baron Edouard Empain, 49, head of Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with holdings in utilities, chemicals and electrical equipment. Last year he bought 20% of Mexico...
...opinion of the work (one of his highest compliments: "I congratulate myself for having read your book"). In recent months De Gaulle has polished off, among others, Francois d'Harcourt's L'Asie, Reveil d'un Monde, dealing with the diversity of Asian cultures; Edouard Sablier's De I'Oural a I'Atlantique, a dissertation on Communist penetration; L'Histoire Secrete, a history of France from 1936 through the Algerian war; and L'agran-dissement, an abstract novel by Claude Mauriac...