Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unmolested Heretic. Hunted both by the reformers and the Catholic Inquisition (both in Spain and in France), Servetus boldly went to Paris and began a new life, in disguise, as Michel de Villeneuve, editor and physician...
...long, half-won battle, it has never accepted Nietzsche's contention that education in large states must inevitably be mediocre. It has rejected the spirit of Michel de Montaigne's bitter witticism: an inept child should be strangled "if there are no witnesses, or else . . . apprenticed to a pastry-cook in some good town." But harsh reality has often forced it to modify the classical educational concepts in order to give its raw levees of children some simple understanding of the language, of the country and its ideals, and of their duties as citizens...
...Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York City...
...present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets human nature take its willful course...
...well acted, and the strands of its many characters and incidents are adroitly interwoven. But the screenplay is often on the super-melodramatic side. Subtitled The Secret Lives and Loves of a French Jury, the picture goes in for such farfetched plotting as having the defendant's lover (Michel Auclair) woo an elderly lady juror (Valentine Tessier) in order to win over her vote. And, even for courtroom drama, Justice Is Done is far too talky...