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...superlatives. "The Goya of our times," wrote the critic of L'Express. "Together with Picasso, [he] ranks among the most extraordinary examples of artistic creation," said Franc-Tireur. In the gallery's red morocco-bound guest book, the great and fashionable scribbled "Bravo, Bernard" and "C'est merveilleux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Artist Must Eat | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

Bechet: La Nuit Est Une Sorciere (Ballet...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Outstanding Current Releases | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

...Dulce est periculum seems a rather extreme motto for a publication as mild and retiring as the Advocate. Usually considered a hangout for the "esthetes," sometimes not considered at all, the Advocate at present is a literary magazine in the strictest sense. Its primary aim, according to John Ratte '57, the president, is to "print the best of undergraduate writing, whether experimental or in a traditional form." But this is only a very recent development in the 90-year history of the magazine. Each board has its own special point of view, and at times the editors have really appeared...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Algeria (pop. 9,000,000 est.), which as a nation is strictly a French creation. Before the French landed in 1830, to chastise the Dey of Algiers for slapping their consul's face with a fly-whisk, the place had been a granary for Rome, a causeway to Western conquest for the Arabs, a nest for Barbary pirates-but never a state or nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S TROUBLED NORTH AFRICA | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Only when the fires had burned themselves out was it possible to pick up what was left of ten U.S. airmen and 56 American soldiers (average age: 24) in the two planes, most of them charred beyond recognition. They died in the fourth big-est air crash in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death by Flying Boxcar | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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