Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hasenciever is Enfant Terrible...
...France. In 1914 he exhibited paintings in London that led Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time and the Western Man, The Childermass. By its enormous scope and exuberant execution The Apes of God should do for modern satire what Joyce's Ulysses did for the modern novel...
Children seldom care whether a story is old or new. They do not concern selves with such portentous events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely...
11?Opening of eighth annual season of the San Francisco Opera Association; in San Francisco. Feature: U. S. premiere of Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges...
...Pierre Quesnay is the enfant terrible of the sedate Bank of France. He is only 35. He refuses to grow a beard. Among his hirsute colleagues the rise of this "boy" is considered almost a scandal. In Basle, Switzerland, last week the august board of the new Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), formed as "The Cash Register of German Reparations" (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.), solemnly met and all but unanimously elected Beardless Pierre Quesnay to be general manager of the bank...