Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the French Revolution, when fanatics proclaimed that they had dethroned God and placed Reason on the ramparts of heaven, Frenchmen have struggled over the deathbeds of famous men. Stories, some apocryphal and some authenticated, tell of the last moments of such famed skeptics as Aristide Briand, Paul Valéry, Voltaire and André Gide. Last week the battle was once more joined over the final hours on earth of Edouard Herriot, who had done as much as anyone to insist on the separation of church and state, and had fought tirelessly against church control of public education...
Primacy of the Image. The volume suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...
...next Man of the Year can be none other than Richard Nixon, just as our next President must be none other than Nixon. VAL BRAUN Topeka, Kans...
...Triomphe, De Gaulle paused briefly to rekindle the flame at the tomb of France's unknown soldier. Then, re-entering his car, he moved on across the Seine to Mont Valérien, a historic fort that overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed...
Coming as they did from the citizens of radical Paris, the thunderous cheers that greeted De Gaulle on the Champs-Elysées and Mont Valérien constituted an impressive vote of confidence in his government that was in marked contrast with Paris' reluctant acceptance of his return to power. And to confirm the results of this emotional plebiscite, the French Institute of Public Opinion found that all over France 54% of those questioned regarded De Gaulle's return to power as "a great good" and only 9% thought it "very...