Word: institute
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...Bouguereau, such faultless yet lifeless art brought honors, fame and money. At 25, he won the coveted Grand Prix de Rome, and his idyllic ceilings painted for rich Paris patrons won him membership in the Institut de France. To the end, when he was producing such works as his Les Oréades, Bouguereau found big buyers, many of them Americans. In 1900, a buyer in New York was willing to pay $7,400 for a work incredibly called Innocence. Historians credit his work as a major influence on Western saloon...
...role in Europe. When the time comes again, we hope you will have solved your other problems and can play it." British Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond recently rose in Parliament to criticize President Johnson for not being "deeply interested in Europe." In Paris, a poll taken by the Institut Francais d'Opinion Publique to determine the world figure whom Frenchmen regard as the greatest menace to world peace, Lyndon Johnson ran a close second (30% to 32%) to Red China's Mao Tse-tung...
Fontainebleau is a town 35 miles south of Paris, famous for its cheese, its forest, its historic chateau, and a 400-year-old monastery. Lately it has also become important to international business as the site of what is probably Europe's best business school, the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. INSEAD, as it is known, has built a reputation as a sort of Harvard Business School of Europe by carefully winnowing applicants and training them so rigorously that they are eagerly courted by the headhunters of big international companies. This week INSEAD...
...kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris' ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars' worth of unimpressive equipment, but its growing contribution to man's knowledge of his ancient culture is yet to be assessed...
...irrelevancy in the lives of many people?the great majority." Gloomy Christian theologians are fond of speaking of a post-Christian age?the Christian Church estranged from modern society. "We need a theology of the 20th, or even the 21st century," says Dominican Dominique Dubarle, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris...