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...Bulge), and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to study at the Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
...Broadway, French dramatists were all the rage: the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Samuel Beckett had good runs, as did the musicals "La Plume de ma tante" and "Irma la douce"; the young Hepburn entranced New York audiences as Colette's Gigi and Jean Anouilh's Ondine. Novels from Germany, Italy, Japan - pretty much any nation the Allies had conquered - were must reading for the intelligentsia. Jean-Paul Sartre was so famous he was parodied in Hepburn's Paris frolic "Funny Face...
...DIED. JEROME LINDON. 75, head of Les Editions de Minuit publishing house and the first to recognize the genius of Samuel Beckett, publishing nearly all his works and remaining a lifelong friend of the Nobel laureate; in Paris...
...After only two or three minutes of chatting in someone's dorm, people were asking really insightful questions and agreed to go the meeting," HIFT member Anne J. Beckett says...
...Beckett is more explicit about her desire for HUDS to embrace the cause...