Word: beret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera's central character (Beret), a "fine sensitive woman" who cracks up from pioneering hardships, gets lost amidst homecomings, claim jumpings, a wedding, baptism and a final invasion of locusts. The result: Giants in the Earth totted up as more of a series of tableaux (or a bad western) than an opera...
...Communists issued an ultimatum to village elders: cooperate by Jan. 27, or have your property confiscated. Thais and Muongs began taking refuge behind the French lines. The French recruited them at 350 (good) piasters a month, armed them with rifles, mortars. Soon the French had a barefooted, beret-wearing, mobile mountain force of several thousand...
...suburb of Zehlendorf, in the U.S. sector, he got up every morning at 7:30 and ate a modest breakfast. ("He has no time for exercise and he doesn't want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked to his high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he started out on his null 6-hour...
...month ago, looking as French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...
...Debt. Good-natured Little Apostle Don Zeno likes to amble through his Village of Brotherhood in turtleneck sweater and beret, pepping things up with a tune on his accordion. This week his bushy eyebrows were knitted with concern over plans for expansion. More foster mothers have been signing up each year (current total: 100), but Nomadelphia still has a waiting list of 7,000 abandoned children. To take care of the overflow, Don Zeno has bought 3,000 acres for a new "village" on the Tyrrhenian coast...