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...usually opens on a serious note, a protest song that may be Jerry or Darlin' Cora or Tol' My Captain. He goes on from there to shouters (Lead Man Holler), love songs (I Do Adore Her), songs of thanksgiving (Merci Bon Dieu), an Israeli Hora (Hava Nageela). Belafonte has developed a remarkable emotional pantomime to match the content of his songs. In John Henry, he hunches his tall, lithe body (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) in a half crouch, knots his fists, launches into the verses with teeth clenched and a spasmodic toss of his head...
...matter (a village funeral, peasant stone breakers, farm women winnowing wheat) was his own self-centered swagger and robust peasant's appetite. One of his favorite painting subjects was himself (see cut). He accepted an admirer's praise by assenting with gusto, "I paint like le bon Dieu." A sturdy, black-bearded bohemian, Courbet would sit up drinking until dawn, once on a trip to Munich defeated 60 Bavarians in a four-day drinking bout. His taste in female models (many of whom became his mistresses) was equally gargantuan...
...Italo-French people of the Riviera. Father Tuck also abolished first, second-and third-class weddings in favor of an egalitarian, one-class ceremony, and he organized the youth of Monaco in a junior Newman Club. Gradually, the spiritual condition of the principality improved. "You have brought le bon Dieu back to us," said a grateful parishioner...
When it was all over, Billy was mobbed by well-wishers, many of them sobbing and chanting "Jésus, mon Dieu." A black-bearded Protestant preacher got him in a bear hug and kissed him on both cheeks. (Said Billy later: "His beard tickled. Anyhow, he hadn't eaten any garlic.") Billy hardly seemed to believe his senses. "This has been the most astounding night of my ministry," he said, mopping his brow. "I saw more sincerity in the eyes of those who came forward tonight than I have ever seen before." Leaky Roof. Most French newspapers praised...
...Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wis. Spotlighted in a second gallery, blacked out with velvet draperies, were a host of machine-made objects from frying pans and plastic cups to oyster forks. Surveying this invasion of an art gallery by kitchen utensils, one indignant dowager demanded: "Man Dieu, is this a trade fair or an art show...