Word: feting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Christmas, education stopped at Nanterre, Chaos regned. The fete had begun once more. Informal and having no real ruling clique, the movement at Nanterre, later to be named. The Movement of March 22, accepted all kinds of students. Jokes and songs replaced much of the usual political jargon. Much more spontancity and personal involvement was possible at Nanterre than at the Sorbonne where "revolutionary vanguards" controlled all action and inaction. And for the first time in the history of the French student movement members of more than one groupescule militated in the same organization. Secure that the interests...
...dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...
...work begins early. Already, members of the Class of 1944 are observing this year's fete to give them ideas for 1969. Gray said that his committee of 150 alumni began serious work just after Labor Day, 1947. From then on, it is nearly a full-time effort to get all the details intricately planned, down to the '43 emblems on the cans of Carling Black Label beer...
...Friday prior to the match, the Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...
...Kremlin went easy on its discontented intellectuals during the preliminaries for its 50th anniversary fete, unwilling to court unfavorable publicity abroad. Now that the celebration is over, it has resumed dragging the more restive ones through the courts. To its surprise and consternation, the younger writers and their educated circle of friends are stubbornly resisting the regime's pressures-sticking together, chiding their doctrinaire and bureaucratic elders, and risking jail or worse to win more freedom. To the Kremlin's embarrassment, the grandson of Old Bolshevik Maksim Litvinov, Stalin's Foreign Minister from...