Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Keats [Schools Without Scholars -April 14] makes many pungent comments on education with which I agree, but I deplore his dismissing school boards as "frequently too secretive" and suggesting "citizens' grand juries." Such groups can be pernicious, since they pass judgment without carrying any responsibility. Also, having no authority, they tend to aimlessness...
...Dostoevsky's characters are similarly transformed. Ivan, the tormented intellectual of the novel, becomes an easy atheist in the movie and finds God and the true faith on the witness stand, when brought to testify against his brother: he is not the man who could have composed the masterful "Grand Inquisitor" or struggled with the devil himself near the close of the novel. The precariously saintly Alexey Karamazov is transformed into a sort of religious straight man, whose feeble pietisms and meaningful stares represent the religious instruction of the movie, and the idiot Smerdyakov becomes a shrewd, calculating, vengeful spirit...
...movie as a representation of the novel fails completely except for Cobb's performance. There is no Grand Inquisitor, none of the sequences from the portion of the novel called "The Boys," and the climactic trial scene contains none of the excitement and meaning which Dostoevsky was able to give it. As the movie ends, Ivan finds God; Dmitri finds Girl; cold, old Katya finds nothing; and Alexey finds that the workings of God are, as we long suspected, inscrutable...
...American Express started to sell package tours on the installment plan with payments ranging from three months up to 20 months. A 15-day tour from Chicago to the Grand Canyon, California, and Las Vegas, Nev.-including fares, meals, lodging and guides-can be bought for $28 down plus payments of $23.79 a month for twelve months. Total cost: $313.48 v. $283 if all paid in advance. American Express expects 2,000 installment travelers to spend $1,000,000 on the plan in 1958, says that its domestic bookings are 10% ahead of last year...
...said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly on with her flowery charms (even Husband Récamier was denied his wife's bed). She was 40 before she embarked on her first (and last) grand passion, the 50-year-old Vicomte de Chateaubriand. It was worth waiting for: it won her an immortal place in his famous Mémoires...