Word: litt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead sometimes get in the way. The editors of the Paris weekly Le Figaro Littéraire recently called attention to the large area of French land occupied by cemeteries. The British, said the magazine, often use cremation as an alternative to cemeteries, but the Roman Catholic Church, which has a good bit to say about French burial practices, is steadfastly opposed to it.* Then the weekly asked some distinguished French intellectuals: 1) Should the church permit cremation? 2) Would you rather be cremated or buried...
Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, appearing at the University of Leeds for an honorary D. Litt., was happy to call herself "the dancing doctor of letters," but really did not think she was up to the academic honor. Said she: "I am probably the most illiterate of all the ballerinas you have heard...
...Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Académie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Académie Royal de Langue et de Littérature Française. But her membership in the Academic Française is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself...
...addition to his studies of Emerson, Perry has written books dealing with the lives and works of Carlyle, Whitman, and Whittler. He received an honorary Litt. D. from the University...
...technique of etching. Last year she completed her major work to date: a series showing the 14 Stations of the Cross, bound together in parchment with four other etchings. When Modern Painter Marie Laurencin saw the pictures, she was so enthusiastic that she begged the editor of Figaro Littéraire to let her announce her discovery. Her verdict: "[They have] the faith of the great primitives shining in each of their faces, with a terror that recalls only Goya." Almost overnight, Mère Geneviève's name was made, and the convent began to sell more...