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This week France celebrates Bastille Day once again, with a squeal of accordions in village squares, dancing in the streets, and a dazzle of fireworks over Paris. But in the Left Bank cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, gravitational center for France's intellectuals, there is an uncertain note in the gaiety. In the grave and troubled summer of 1955, France is unsure of itself and of its mission...
...DARDENNE St. Germain-en-Laye, France...
...walls of Paris' Maeght Gallery last week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall...
...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
Daniel Deykin, History and Literature; Clement J. Dore, Jr. English; Joseph A. Dubay, Mathematics; Joseph L. Durham, Government; Maurice J. Elovitz, Romance Languages and Literatures; Thomas E. Everhart, Physics; Gerald P. Fitzgerald, Latin; Paul Fruit, Economics; Paul W. Gabler, History; Sumner J. P. Germain, English; Gordon J. Gilbert, Biology; Walter Gilbert, Chemistry and Physics; Thomas J. Gill, 3d, Chemistry; Samuel V. Gilman, Jr., History; Mark L. Goodman, History and Literature...