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...philosophical syntheses and her belligerent leftism, labelled her the "Red Virgin." When she received her teaching certificate, he arranged to have the Education ministry refuse her a post in the industrial, union-base cities she had requested, and to have her sent instead to a small town called Le Puy in central France. (This professor is rumored to have said, "we'll send her...as far away as possible so that we shall never hear of her again...
...contemporary resonances, of course. Does anyone still believe that the hippies and gurus and Woodstocks of the '60s were anything new or unusual? Consider the medieval Pied Piper from Bourges, who called himself Christ and gathered an ecstatic following that then presented itself to the Bishop of Le Puy, its members "stark naked, leaping and somersaulting." The response was summary: the leader was "killed on the spot...
Died. Jean Puy, 84, French painter who, with Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Braque, launched the style of vivid colors and simplified shapes, created such a scandal at the famed 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition that they were dubbed Les Fauves (the wild beasts); in Roanne, France...
...James Worley [Dec. 7]. Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled lesson plans. HAROLD A. DE PUY ex-Pearl River High School Spring Valley...
...relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down the wrong road...