Word: gation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouragement of his mother (who at 70 recently retired from work) and his mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition, the Agrègation. In 1932, with his gifted bride of a year, Tunis-born Anthropologist Georgette Fagot,* he set off for Mexico, there spent most of the next seven years in anthropological study of the Mexican Indians. By 1939 he had won a doctorate, the nickname "Jacques the Aztec," and a reputation...
...story of the South's desegre- gation is sometimes told in violence and often in warming progress; there is news of legal skirmishes and noise of rebel yells. But mostly, there is a story of individuals-white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have...
...remainder of the action takes poor Susannah on a descending spiral through rejection by the townsfolk, false betrayal by the local idiot, seduction by the evan gelist himself, humiliation by the congre gation, and the eventual murder (by her brother) of her seducer. The grim tale ends on an ambiguous note with Susannah laughing hysterically...
...grandparents were peasants, his father was an artillery officer, and Henri Petiot began life as a bright young man with an academic future. He majored simultaneously in law, geography and history at the University of Grenoble, took the equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character...
...shortage of teachers, for few professions in France are so poorly paid. Average salaries run from $85 a month for primary schoolteachers to $300 for full-fledged university professors. As a result, says Deputy Charles Viatte, "each year practically all the professors who receive their agrégation in physics immediately abandon the teaching profession. The agrégation is the degree which normally should lead them to teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation: "Our teachers . . . make less...