Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The boy learns early to "defend" himself, as the French say. Naturally independent, he soon becomes a proficient liar, steals from his mother's purse, cheats in class, plays hooky. Finally the boy decides to "faire les quatre cents coups" (go for broke). He runs away from home, and...
Desperate, the boy escapes. He runs and runs. At last he reaches the sea. He can go no farther. Bewildered and heartsick, he turns back to face life, society, the audience. And at that instant the camera stops. A life is arrested, an existence fades into the sort of candid...
Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called Topsy and Eva, popularized some of the classic songs of the '20s (Bye, Bye Blackbird; Side by Side); after an auto accident...
THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by Winston S. Churchill and the Editors of LIFE (615 pp., 2 vols.; TIME Inc.; regular edition, $25; deluxe edition, $27.50), combines the best of Churchill's sonorous prose from his six-volume history of World War II with some of the greatest war pictures...
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the...