Word: apres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost the only way of telling one Swiss Alp from another is by the celebrities who choose to schuss its slopes by day and carouse, après-ski, in the little town huddled at its base. If the sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow...
...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
...Other Reason. Debussy did not start his first important work-the Prelude a I'Aprés-midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began...
...enthusiasm for the sport in that part of the country, together with a considerable amount of advance notice in the St. Louis news media announcing the Crimson's visit, point toward a week of frenetic activity for Harvard. The fifteen faces St. Louis University on Apr. 3, Washington University on Apr. 5, and Notre Dame on Apr. 7, all games to be staged on the Forest Park playing grounds in St. Louis...
...there are 45 candidates out for this spring's team, scheduled to play in the "B" League of the Eastern Rugby Union. The schedule includes games in Cambridge with Williams on Apr. 14, the Boston Rugby Club on Apr. 18, Villanova on Apr. 21, the Montreal Barbarians on Apr. 28, and M.I.T...