Word: des
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding...
...general, those who had roasted the Administration and Secretary of State Acheson in the past simply turned up the heat. Most of the rest withheld their fire. Even some of MacArthur's severest critics eased up. Said the usually critical Des Moines Register: "We are compelled to say in fairness that the 'kicking around' which the U.N. supreme commander in Korea is now getting seems most unjust and irresponsible...
...five poems in the Advocate are generally superior to the prose contributions. Donald Hall's "Epithalamion" is a haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
...Some of them were almost monosyllabic: men meeting on the street sometimes simply stared at each other and then voiced the week's most oft-repeated phrase-"It looks bad." This silence marked many men who had fought in World War II. Said a Purple Heart veteran in Des Moines: "I quit turning on my radio-I don't want to hear the news." Through all the talk there were overtones not of fear but of futility...
Through the years FDR kept his interest in the paper. Gardner Cowles '25, head of Look Magazine and another former president of the CRIMSON, was summoned once from Des Moines to the White House when Roosevelt wanted to size him up. With FDR leading the conversation, they spent three hours discussing only the CRIMSON...