Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sprouting from the grass like a strange new species of mushroom were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb and France's Jean Chauvel introduced a joint Anglo-French resolution that welcomed "the prompt and vigorous support" which the world had given U.N.'s earlier Korea actions; they urged "a unified command under the United States," and asked the U.S. "to designate the commander of such forces...
After consulting their home governments, the delegates of six nations met again in Paris last week to move the Schuman Plan a step nearer reality. West Germany and Italy were ready to accept the supranational coal-steel authority which France's Jean Monnet had proposed as "the first foundation of a European community." The Benelux group still had doubts...
Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
Finland's 84-year-old Jean Sibelius need not worry about dying in the poverty which has closed the eyes of many another famed composer.* Since the turn of the century, the Finnish government has guaranteed his board & keep. But this week Composer Sibelius let it be known (through Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times) that he has received "not a penny" in royalties from the U.S., a country whose performances of his music should have made him rich...