Word: alaine
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Toughest Audience. Gone are the simple pleasures of the koch alain (cook alone) bungalows, the overgrown farmhouses, the adult camps that catered to the hungry garment workers, the marriage-minded Manhattan secretaries of the '205 and '303. In those days, when the whole area was happy to be known as the Borscht Belt, the camps and hotels spawned their own entertainers. Danny Kaye, Moss Hart, Dore Schary, Phil Silvers-all served their apprenticeships, responding manfully to the boss's frantic cry: "Make the guests happy...
...four recent works. Improvisatoy bombast characterizes the Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...
From the crowded courtroom came a cry: "Assassin!" Snapped the judge: "Remove that woman at once." A lawyer answered: "It is the mother of Alain Rolland," and no one moved. As Jean Amiel went back to his cell, where he had been reading Milton's Paradise Lost, his wife was escorted out of town by police to protect her from the townspeople. But this was not the end of the affair...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...Several days after the court had awarded damages to the Rollands, an anonymous letter postmarked Paris arrived at their home. "Congratulations on the good business," it read. "Several million francs-now there's a death that pays off ..." Leaving a note that said, "I am going to join Alain," Banker Rolland last week tied a rope to a rafter in his bathroom, hanged himself...