Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in France's myopically nationalistic Assembly, there were a few men who found this hard to swallow. But when the most notable of the dissenters, ex-Premier Pierre Mendés-France, rose to speak, he was showered with right-wing catcalls of "Jew" and "traitor." In the end the duly elected representatives of the French people approved the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef by a vote of 339 to 179. Of the 179 nays, all but 31 came from Communists or fellow travelers...
...bull and dragon. Treated with religious awe and epic endowments in their time, such old heroes never fade away, still have power in art. Dorothy Norman thinks she knows the reason. "Why," she asks, "do such age-old concepts as Theseus and the Minotaur, Job and Behemoth, continue to speak to us with such undiminished power?" Her reply: "Because they suggest to us not some remote force or personage, but phases of our own most essential struggle with ourselves...
Harry S. Ashmore, editor of the anti-Faubus Arkansas Gazette, will speak this evening at 8:15 p.m. in Emerson...
...well by Nadine Duwez. Roger Kline, a veteran of the Harvard French stage, puts the most emotion in the part of Thesee, the deceived husband; and Robert DeLancey plays Hyppolite, the stepson, with a competent, dramatic voice. All of them, as well as Mrs. Claude Carey as Aricia, speak French with surprising fluency...
...Charles will visit Leverett next week as part of the House's Ford Grant program and will also speak at a concentration dinner Tuesday. He will be accompanied by his wife, the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson. He has suggested in several recent magazine articles that undergraduate liberal education be founded on the sciences...