Word: auric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Francis Poulenc, 64, prolific French composer, a tall, ruddy-faced man with a boisterous Gallic wit, who at 18 wrote his piano showpiece Perpetual Motion, shortly thereafter joined the rebellious "Les Six," a group of young composers (among them: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric) that left a bright mark on contemporary French music; of a heart attack; in Paris. In later years Poulenc's gay, airy theatrical music gave way to a more highly sustained and emotional style in such formidable pieces as The Dialogues of the Carmelites, a melodic opera based on the 1789 martyrdom...
...voodoo the better to serve Marxism. On another occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard that he could only make love to women coated in 14-carat gold paint...
...Composers Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Vittorio Rieti and Pianist Marcelle Meyer...