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Word: galit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Happy Jail | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse no longer goes in for such acerbity, but in its own way, it still manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Mirror | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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