Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hold over night in East Cambridge jail, the student had to sign a statement that he would not protest police treatment, before his release. He was offered the alternative of appearing in court yesterday morning, but chose to sign the release instead, McCaffrey said...
...ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental, to a world never long enough governed by logic, or spurred on by truth, or saved...
...first, village officials begged parents to send their children back to school pending "decisions from higher authorities.'' Then, when the villagers gathered for a mass protest meeting, the officials decided to compromise. While awaiting a new "arrangement," they had decided to put M. Mériel on sick leave and turn his classes over to his wife. At week's end, things were quiet again in Ifs-especially in the vicinity of Headmaster Mériel himself. "If they're not pleased," said he drowsily, "let them promote me to a secondary school. All the same...
...were like kids isolated in our own backyard," Calcagno recalls. "We made up our games and the rules to go with them. Painting became an end in itself. We were fighting and protesting for self-liberation. The danger is that protest becomes an end in itself." The school produced its eccentrics, including one student who wound up in a mental hospital. But working alongside Calcagno were several of today's foremost younger moderns including John Hultberg, top prizewinner of this year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME...
Left Bank Protest. Moving on to Paris, Calcagno checked in with the Paris art schools, but continued to paint his own way. He went to Italy and drenched himself in Renaissance art; another winter he spent living in a peasant's house on Elba, and worked directly from nature. When his money ran out, he went to Casablanca, signed up as a paint spray-gun operator, working side by side with Moroccan laborers at U.S. air bases. Back in Paris with money in his pocket, he found himself elected chairman of a group of fellow Left-Bank expatriates...