Word: institutions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buskers and the tent circus on the cobblestone plaza of Paris' skeletal-modern Pompidou arts center, there is what looks like a subway entrance marked IRCAM. It leads down, four levels below, to the world's newest, most sophisticated center for musical experiment and composition, officially titled Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique. IRCAM is a hushed place that fairly radiates energy and cerebration. Here the ordinateur, as the French call a computer, reigns. In one lab, a group is seeking its aid in constructing a new, futuristic flute. In another, a composer is using...
...time she went off to Paris at 17 to study at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Caroline's rebellion was in full swing. Recalls a friend: "She smoked in public, drank more than was good for her and always seemed to have a pop star handy when the photographers arrived." Her worried parents, ambitious to uphold a dynastic tradition that dates back seven centuries, scanned Europe for suitably aristocratic suitors. Prince Charles was rumored to be a favorite, and Prince Henri of Luxembourg would have made an ideal son-in-law. Neither seemed interested, and in any case...
Mouse Teratocarconoma and Mouse Embryo: Cell Surface and Development--Francois Jacob of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Science Center...
Some recent writings in France are even more adventuresome. Jacques Pohier, a Dominican at the Institut Catholique in Paris, says that "at the limit, it is an absurdity to say that God makes himself into man. God cannot be anything other than God." Father Pierre-Marie Beaude of the Center for Theological Studies in Caen thinks that early church leaders had to "murder their founding father Jesus" to develop into maturity, while Father Michel Pinchon, editor of the magazine Jésus, writes of his liberation from "idolatry" of Jesus, who "does not present himself...
...decades before he died in 1970, Lugt knew more about his chosen subject than anyone else alive. His collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th century drawings-there are now 2,500 of them housed in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, which he endowed-is definitive. The present show at New York's Morgan Library, entitled "Rembrandt and His Century: Dutch Drawings of the 17th Century" and comprising only 132 items culled from the 2,500, conveys at least an idea of the collection's extraordinary range and quality. Lugt's taste...