Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French literature is a very glorious and splendid treasury, but really it is about 60 million Frenchmen, isn't it? The masters of modern literature are engaged in describing multitudinous man, and at once we see a violent shift of values taking place. In one sense the individual shrinks in this vast cousinage and in another sense his assertion of his validity takes on a new urgency and seeks a new authority...
French literature is a very glorious and splendid treasury, but really it is about 60 million Frenchmen, isn't it? The masters of modern literature are engaged in describing multitudinous man, and at once we see a violent shift of values taking place. In one sense the individual shrinks in this vast chousing and in another sense his assertion of his validity takes on a new urgency and seeks a new authority...
Lattimore also suggested to Carter that the survey back Russian "international policy in general, but without using their slogans and above all, without giving them or anybody else an impression of 'subservience.'" Budenz inspected the letter, called it a "splendid example" of what he was talking about...
...months, U.N. commanders in Korea tried by various devices and ruses to lay hands on one of the enemy's Russian-built MIG-15 fighters. For months, the Reds foiled them. In London last week the British Admiralty proudly told how a splendid specimen of the sleek MIG was grabbed at last for U.N. scrutiny...
Prokofiev: Suite from The Love for Three Oranges (French National Symphony Orchestra, Roger Désormière conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). The six-part instrumental version of Prokofiev's splendid-nonsense opera is bouncy and engaging. Performance and recording: good...