Word: strasbourg
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...John Calvin was 27 and a thoroughly skilled philosopher-theologian on the July day in 1536 when he first arrived in Geneva-a tired, thin young man of middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman...
...mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have been carrying around with me in the lumber room of my mind for 40 years. Like the geese of Strasbourg, I was force fed . . . and I still can't unlearn to talk to a table or a squad of tables, addressing them correctly in Latin, saying: 'O tables . . .' It's about time the tables, O tables, were turned against this piece of scholastic witchcraft...
Open-Eyed Dreams. Born in bilingual Strasbourg in 1887, Arp grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto-abstractionists of the Blue Rider school. As Jean Arp he lived in Paris, where he was a friend of Picasso, Apollinaire and Modigliani. He first made his mark in Zurich as one of the founders of the give-the-bourgeois-hell movement called Dada. So wacky did the Dadaist antics...
Died. Florent Schmitt, 87, French composer of ballet (The Tragedy of Salome), chamber music (Quintet in B Minor), piano, orchestral and choral music (Psalm 47) ; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. In June the audience at the opening concert of the Strasbourg Festival heard a sparkling phenomenon: Florent Schmitt's new and youthfully buoyant first symphony, premiered in his 88th year...
Franklin L. Ford, associate professor of History, has been awarded the third annual Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for his book, Strasbourg in Transition, 1648-1789. The award was made by President Pusey at a luncheon yesterday at the Faculty Club...