Word: chef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invitation to dinner at the French embassy in London is the dream of any true gourmet. Ambassador Jean Chauvel's chef is one of the world's great cooks. A tiny (5 ft.) Tonkinese, Bui Van Han, 50, has presided over the Chauvel kitchen for 22 years, is a graduate of Paris' famed Cordon Bleu school, a master of haute cuisine. In the posts where he has cooked for the Chauvels-Paris, Bern, New York -the mere memory of his Pauppiette de Sole à la Richelieu or Cotelettes de Pigeone à l'Espagnole is enough...
Ivory Tower. From his command post near by, Lieut. Colonel Vuang Van Dong, 30, who declared himself "chef de coup d'état," explained what the fighting was all about: "We want to end politics in the army." The rebels' complaint was that Diem's interference was hamstringing the army's efforts to wipe out Communist terrorism. Chimed in a paratroop captain: "All Diem has done in six years in office is indulge in nepotism. He has generals who don't even command a company. He lives in an ivory tower surrounded by his family...
Marx v. Machetes. Roger Riou's father, a chef on the liner Ile de France, was a rabid Communist, his mother also a dedicated Red. So thoroughly did they train their child that Roger was selling the Communist newspaper L'Humanité on sidewalks at the age of nine. At twelve, he was militating in a Communist youth gang, apparently convinced on his own that Communism was the answer to mankind's problems. During the long hours of his stretch in solitary at reform school Roger began to doubt Red doctrine. Later, the sympathetic director...
...Tshombe still depends on Belgian aid to keep his government going. Belgian engineers and money still operate the big copper mines, and Belgian advisers and experts on Tshombe's payroll virtually run the Katanga government departments and provide leadership for the army. Every government minister has a Belgian chef de cabinet to advise him on every move; more often than not, the Belgian summons the minister when he wants him, sits while he stands...
Moussorgsky left the orchestration of this work even less complete than that of Boris, and the plot is far more complicated and considerably less powerful than that of his earlier chef d'oeuvre. A production of it is therefore obliged, musically and dramatically, to take the utmost care to clear up the murk caused by its incompleteness and intricacy...