Word: elan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking Down. "By academism we mean: to evaluate things by ingrained custom. . . . But life is different, unbridled, without respect. . . . The U.N., spontaneous creation in the fading hour of a society outmoded by the elan of a new life, must take heed! Bad shepherds are not lacking...
Rest was missing-and so was the elan that comes from feeling a job well done. Towards the end, Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky raised mild hopes by pledging Soviet determination "to consolidate the work of this conference, however different our views." The commissions made some headway on boundaries and reparations. On the thorny subject of reparations they agreed: from Italy, $325 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ethiopia; from Hungary and Rumania each, $300 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia; from Bulgaria, $125 million to Greece and Yugoslavia; from Finland, $300 million to Russia. The principle of freedom...
...reserve British regard Patton's elan and peacock-strutting brilliance as "great style," even compare him with his colorful antithesis-cautious Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The French, Dutch, Belgians regard Patton with vast confidence. Even the Germans help to glorify him. Some enemy officers & men consider it more honorable to have had to surrender to "Bloody" Patton's Third Army...
Some confusion has been caused by the prevalence of the Flynn elan on Soldiers Field. Lee Flynn, no relation, is the cause of the mixup, but there is no similarity in their builds. Lee is small and very fast, with a good throwing arm, while Wally is a 190 pounder...
Self - exiled from France, Oxenfant transferred his widely known schools of London and Parts to New York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...