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...always open for top graduates of Louis-le-grand, France's most prestigious lycée, or state-run academic high school. Across the street from the Sorbonne in Paris, Louis-le-grand has an ancient passion to create "an elite of the elite" and a modern penchant for vaulting brainy boys into the grandes écoles, the supra-universities whose graduates virtually run France. This week Lycée Louis-le-grand celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding by a once despised elite: the Jesuits, then mostly Spaniards, who in 1563 started their own school...
Today in England and America society seems to be emerging upon an upland of plenty which Arnold predicted would nourish a renewed concern for culture, thought and ideas. The fact would please Arnold. But with a cultivated scholar's penchant for reading national character in small cultural details, he would be acutely downcast by one outwardly insignificant philological decline. Arnold's favorite word, "disinterested," which epitomized precisely the state of objective fair-mindedness he sought, has disappeared-in the U.S. at least. A partisan-minded culture, with very little use for objectivity, has let it be ground down...
...slightly vague on occasion, has great taste, insight, and style. Her graciousness as a hostess has provoked a Lowell tutor to describe her, with certain provide, as "natively a lady." Her penchant for animation has prevented many a potentially dull social entertainment from becoming...
...this election, but in unravelling the complex, Mr. Cohen has overlooked the obvious. Two immutable promises exist in any analysis of Quebec political behaviour in federal elections. One is Quebec's relentless resistance to Anglo-Canadian or American encroachment on her cherished values and identity. Two is Quebec's penchant for heroes be they political or otherwise...
...office. In his New Year's message. Arosemena himself referred to his personal problems: "Those who pretend to ignore that the human being is complex-shadow and light, angel and devil-are, in Biblical terms, money changers in the temple." And lately he seems to have, curbed his penchant for Scotch...