Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election to the august French Academy, established 325 years ago by Cardinal Richelieu to safeguard the purity of the French language, was Novelist Paul (Ouvert la Nuit) Morand. At 70 he was suitably ancient, with his Scott Fitzgeraldish novels of the '20s had more claim to literary distinction than many of the "immortals" already in the academy. But he had also been Pétain's envoy, first to Rumania, then to Switzerland...
...from attempting some ambitious shows. Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Ninotchka, Waterloo Bridge are all on the books. He is angling for the rights to Our Town, has already taped an impressive remake of The Moon and Sixpence, starring Sir Laurence Olivier. In May he will do Billy Budd, in August The Ransom of Red Chief; just before Christmas he plans to produce Arrowsmith...
...procedures. They are now so tight, in fact, that the fresh team of Americans in the Laotian capital of Vientiane complains that "red tape strung about to prevent repetition, of the old mistakes has got the place tied up." Premier Phoui Sananikone, who, since coming to power in August has swept away much of Laos' old corruption and sloth, is happy over U.S. help but objects: "We are pressed for time here in Laos. We find ourselves going into interminable discussions here. Then the decision goes to Washington, where there is more exhaustive discussion, and an enormous amount...
...startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, be anchor prince in a four-hero Hamlet. Last week Baker stood by as 115 student actors presented his headiest experiment: a complex, three-hour dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's sprawling novel. Of Time and the River...
...first hint of a change in Soviet thinking was Khrushchev's slash in funds for hydroelectric plants last August. According to western economic theories, the maintenance cost of such plants makes them uneconomical as a power source...