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Although their third and final piece, Debussy's Quartet in G minor, Opus 10, lacked focus and feeling in the first movement, the quartet quickly recovered--and by the second movement, Assez vif et bien rythme, played a sound that (like its French direction would suggest) was lively, rhythmic and lyrical. But perhaps more importantly, it was fresh. Despite the practice that first violinist Arnold Steinhardt characterizes as "hours and hours of brute labor," the quartet did on Friday what makes them renowned: they conveyed spontaneity. The result was a sound that through rehearsal did not become tenderized and beaten...
...suis qu'un' jolie poupee, mais c'est assez, bien assez...
...Presse, an afternoon newspaper in the French capital, on our article, France, the Younger Generation (TIME, May 30), written by Correspondent Stanley Karnow. Said Paris-Presse of the results: "If Karnow was presenting this article to a jury of youth for his baccalaureate, he would have obtained the grade assez bien [much better than passing]." The paper quoted Jacques Auberger, Secretary General of the Paris Students' Federation, as saying: "It is manifest that the article . . . reflects quite perfectly the essence of the situation of French youth...
...Denise Chambon it was a happy day. When the bac jurymen finished tabulating the results, Denise learned she had passed second on a list of twelve with an assez bien after her name. At her home her mother and bus-conductor father received the news proudly...
...full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that...