Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictator's tame press had repeatedly condemned them in advance. But Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah, who headed the three-man court, chose to ignore the hint. At the end of a 51-day trial, he convicted two of the accused, who will be hanged, but exonerated the three top officials who were charged with masterminding the conspiracy. Among the three: former Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, 51, a leftwing, London-educated lawyer who had once been Nkrumah's closest crony. The prosecution cited as "evidence" the fact that Adamafio had refused to sit beside the President...
...Joseph Kennedys's life in London when "the parents kept a card-index on their children, the better to check upon measles, trips to Europe, and visits to dentists." Jacqueline Lee Bouvier's prize-winning essay of 1951, "People I Wish I Had Known," is reprinted. (She chose Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Diaghilev for their theories...
...observes only major changes in fashion (such as Patou's drop of hemlines in 1930, Dior's New Look in 1947, and the chemise in 1958). The volume ends on a most sophisticated note, with the mischievous, tongue-in-cheek observation: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...
Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis could have been received either as a magnificent catharsis or as an offensive, over-extended tear-jerker. The audience chose the cathartic interpretation, even though the members of the string orchestra did not end their chords together, did not play their pizzicati together, and did not all tune to the standard of pitch habitual in civilized countries...
Pleased with Warnecke's work, Kennedy took him along to Harvard last October during a planning trip for the library. Then, after the President's assassination, Jackie chose Warnecke to design the tomb. What he will do with these two monuments is still in the privacy of his own mind...