Word: andr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone carver at 14, attended free sculpture classes in public night school. Before World War I, he took a studio in Montmartre, began hobnobbing with Paris' artist-revolutionaries, translating their cubist experiments into blocky, three-dimensional breakdowns of guitars, women and bottles. But as Laurens' friend, Cubist André Lhôte, puts it, "The painters had the luck-the bourgeoisie liked the colors. But the poor sculptors! The women were afraid the corners would catch the plumes in their hats." Few prospective buyers took notice of Laurens' experiments in wood and stone...
...Picnickers. The fugitive, dubbed by French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills...
Bizet: Carmen (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Solange Michel, soprano; Michel Dens, baritone; Marthe Angelici, soprano, and others; chorus and orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique, with André Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Soprano Michel lacks the fire to make the title role burn as it should, but the performance as a whole is excellent and so is the recording...
Sexton Fresnay, ragged, unschooled and in awe of the pulpit, agrees against his will to take up a few of the priestly duties. But he is pushed deeper & deeper into the role by the demands of his flock. He rejects the girl (Andrée Clement) who wants to marry him, moves into the rectory, reluctantly listens to confessions, fearfully goes through the motions of giving absolution...
...days later the villagers of Gissac, in Aveyron,noticed the arrival of a strange new doctor and his wife at the small local Catholic hospital. The priests seemed to treat Dr. André Viaud, a spent-looking retired practitioner wearing the beginnings of a scraggly beard, with unusual respect. When a man stopped him on a walk and asked him to look at some peculiar red splotches on his daughter's face, Dr. Viaud failed to oblige. Instead, he hurried back to the hospital and sent one of the other doctors. He even avoided a chat with...