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...aimless study of existentialism, political science and art history at the Sorbonne. Turning to art, Ponelle was fascinated by early 16th century French and Dutch mannerists. This influence was quite pronounced in his first theatrical sets for a 1954 Berlin production of Luigi Nono's ballet, The Red Coat. Composer Hans Werner Henze, a boyhood friend, later asked Ponelle to design a production of his opera, The Stag King. Other commissions quickly followed...
...delegation lives frugally. The male members sleep two to a bedroom. The only servant is a Vietnamese resident of Paris who cooks traditional native dishes. A handyman rakes the leaves. Madame Binh managed a couple of shopping tours and purchased a $70 full-length coat and a $40 car coat as protection against the Paris winter. She also bought a pair of gloves, two Vietnamese tunics-and some perfume detected to be Chanel...
...even this is merely an appeal to the state's self-interest. It is crisp, numerical, clinical--only distantly related to the attempted abortions by wire coat hangers and steam from boiling turpentine that Baird is always so quick to talk about...
...polite. In fact, I was generally treated with more deference and gallantry in three days at Yale than I have been in three and a half years here. The boys at the News stood up when I came into the room, they helped me on and off with my coat, and they watched their language. I heard "Oh Sh . . . ugar" at least twice, and "F . . .ooey" once, which I must say embarrassed me a great deal more than what they had intended ever would have...
...tenacious rear-guard action. When readers objected to King Alexander of Yugoslavia's regularly being described as "dentist-like," TIME argued doggedly in print that he "has about him an air, not quite clinical, of cleanly meticulousness commonly found in dentists. He also on occasion wears a white coat...