Word: footings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected for his wartime collaboration (TIME, May 4). Asked if this was a factor in his withdrawal, Benoit sidestepped with Gallic nimbleness: "It was not only that...
Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
...play dirty pool, the heroine slaps a writ of execution on the villain, "attaches" the next train that happens to come through town, parks it on a spur track and challenges the brute to top that. He does. He demands rent for the spur track - $1 a foot...
...Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken for the partners' full-scale project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a gigantic shrine, to be entered from underground, and built around an 80-foot column of c water, to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...course, quite true that many members of Dudley House never set foot in the building. As much as we would like to have them, there is no law forcing them to participate. It is also true that many members of Resident Houses participate in House activities only to the extent of eating and sleeping in the building; there is no law forcing them to participate either...