Word: andre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANDRÉE FENARIS Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing Boston...
France breeds intellectuals the way Australia breeds tennis players-and follows their careers with almost equal attention. "The French tend to think of the Russian Revolution as a step in the intellectual development of André Gide," cracked British Historian D. W. Brogan recently, "and of the Chinese Revolution as an incident in the literary career of André Malraux...
...Monstrous Desire." Last week, thanks to a crusade launched by one of Paris' most respected gynecologists. Dr. Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Halle, the belated revolution was stirring French doctors to action and open flouting of the 1920 law. Dr. Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...
...musician thinks only a few bars ahead while improvising, Jackson envisions a whole piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always subject to change. Sometimes Jackson opens with eloquent slowness, then double-times the theme with marvelous results. Or he may start with a rocking jazz attack...