Word: bon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King's rays than Charles Le Brun, "First Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...
...Detroit, and decided early that the way to fun and fortune was to be afootball star. But, alas, at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute he learned that college football players do not always get paid. Wagner quit after a year, with a hard-earned reputation as a bon vivant...
...Bon Mot. One of the principal elsewheres is the federal capital of Ottawa, where a French-speaking civil servant who receives a letter in French must send it to a translation bureau to be put into English. Even French-speaking civil servants are required to communicate with each other in English; it simplifies filing...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...morally educative fashion. His remarks provide a glimpse of the personal aims of his philosophical and psychological endeavor. "Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher.... But the thing is simply impossible.... Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker...