Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning Life to Account. Originally Flemish, the Malraux family were for 300 years shipbuilders at Dunkirk. André Malraux's grandfather was a fierce little man who for 22 years attended Mass kneeling on the ground outside, in rain or wind, because of a quarrel with the church authorities. He had a prejudice against insurance, and when a storm sank his whole fishing fleet off Newfoundland, the Malraux family fortune was wiped out. André was brought up by his mother, who ran a small grocery shop in a Paris suburb...
...building for bargaining sessions in the big fifth-floor conference room. Late each night they left again with no word of progress. G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton, director of labor relations, printed and passed out to the press a card in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Flemish. The words meant the same in all six languages: "No comment." At week's end, after a final bargaining spurt, the settlement was announced. Like Ford, G.M. accepted the principle of G.A.W. and on the same scale of benefits: four weeks of layoff pay at 65% of normal take-home wages (including...
...institution they belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor...
...studio and paints, but he gets panned by the critics. Wyatt is soon back in a Greenwich Village flat with a draftsman's job and a possessive wife just out of analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral bondage forging "undiscovered" Flemish masterpieces for a millionaire dealer in expensive fakes. This work drives him to the fringes of sanity and murder. Fleeing the U.S., he makes an obscurely redemptive pilgrimage to his mother's grave in Spain...
...detracted from certain aspects of the play, it has added to others. The backgrounds--particularly the cathedral and market-place of Siena and the Ca' D'Oro in Venico--are triumphantly beautiful, and the costuming is luxuriant. Although many of the interior tableaux are more reminiscent of the Flemish painters, the actors have been decked out after a rogue's gallery of Italian Renaissance portraits...