Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late member of the French school of "symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on the wonderful organ that Vierne played for 37 years, in Notre Dame Cathedral ; its stops range from cheese-grater harshness to buttery smoothness...
University of Notre Dame...
Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
Like many of her sisters in what she bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...
Best of the newcomers is Britain's Chris topher Logue, who brings to the naked charms of his ladylove the sensual splendors of The Song of Solomon. For other issues, Tambi hopes to secure poems from Dame Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot...