Word: chaillot
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...ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton), by recreating the surroundings of his one brief love affair...
...lady is, of course, Countess Aurelia--the title personage of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
...conference room in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, the U.S. found itself confronting an almost unified opposition. Four years after the Korean armistice, most of its Western allies were itching to get a chunk of the Red Chinese market and unwilling to agree that trade with Red China should be subject to heavier restrictions than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China differential" should be maintained. At Bermuda two months...
...Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize its employees. With the fall of France in 1940, this soft-looking ex-banker became one of the organizers of the resistance. Twice arrested by the Gestapo...
...sweaty spring heat of the conference room in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, the 15 NATO foreign ministers seemed to have many ideas about what NATO should not do, very few about what it should. "We have no solid idea of what to pursue," admitted NATO's able Secretary General Lord Ismay. "Some people seem to think that we need work to do to keep us out of mischief...