Word: michel
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Henry Bourne, a junior who came here with Advanced Standing, mulls over the problems of the Zeitgeist postulate in historical writing. Examining Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians...
Gitter added that R.B.I.'s advisory board, which includes Archibald Mac-Leish, has just acquired the services of two theatre luminaries: Eva Le Gallienne and Michel Saint-Denis...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
Little known to his countrymen, 47-year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroad-and what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has often sounded like one. A brilliant lawyer and civil servant before World War II, an organizer of the Gaullist Resistance during the war, Debré after the war became known in the French Senate for his scathing attacks on the leaders of the Fourth Republic, his nationalistic outbursts against European...