Word: dieu
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...Simone wants is to curl up in her plush Paris flat, keeping her children happy and her cupboards full until war's end. When a chance encounter throws Whitman into her lap for safekeeping, Signoret registers magnificent dismay. "I'm not his mother," she objects. Grace à Dieu...
There were two glimmers of real humor. One had to do with General de Gaulle's fondness for the possessive -how he likes to say "my bomb, my army, my Europe and even, on occasion, mon Dieu." The other was a remark about the virus that has got the best of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. Said David Frost, British M.C. of That Was the Week That Was and a guest on the American show: "Hume is in bed with flu, or if you prefer, Home is in bed with...
Virgil Fox Plays the Philharmonic Hall Organ (Command). In baroque, romantic and modern music - Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous-Fox puts Manhattan's first fine concert organ through its paces for a disk debut. A staggering volume and variety of sound and with it, music of a high order...
...Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception at the Chronicle only three days later. Boob Audience...
...seems deaf, De Gaulle should be a figure of fun (and sometimes is), but the greatness in the man usually survives the mockery. His mind is like the Louvre, filled with battle pictures in which the French are always winning; his heart throbs with simple emotions labeled Patrie, Dieu, Gloire, and he has a gift for prophecy that is more Old Testament than 20th century modern. De Gaulle's faults are common to many men-he is bullheaded, arrogant, touchy, more responsive to flattery than criticism, insufferably proud of his intellect and insight. His virtues, however, are rare...