Word: institutions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...special Cabinet session the General and his Ministers decided to build "a large land, air and naval base" on Africa's Atlantic bulge, at Dakar, which Franklin Roosevelt more than once implied was a U.S. strategic outpost. A few days later the General dropped in at the Institut Géographique, where French Indo-Chinese were celebrating their New Year...
Under the stately cupola of the Institut de France, some 20 Living Immortals buzzed away busily last week. In the most felicitous phrases of the world's most crystallized and elegant language, they were discussing the nuances of the word "art." They were the French Academy, founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, the tangible concretion of the ineffable essence of French culture. Since 1935, unhurriedly, imperturbably, through World War II, the fall of France, the German occupation, and liberation, they had regularly donned their plumed bicornes and green-gold uniforms, regularly gathered to compile a new edition of their...
This 300-year-old sentence from Areo-pagitica-"A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England," was very much alive last fortnight in London. In London's Institut Français, members of the International P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound...
When Paris fell, one of the adjuncts of civilization that went with it was the Institut Pasteur. It was a severe loss to Allied soldiers, for the Institut was, among other things, the world's principal source of snakebite serum. From Johannesburg now comes the story of a long, dangerous mission undertaken by three enlisted men of the South African Army to help make up this loss...