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...militant Zionists of Paris, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, enfant terrible of the movement, founder of the Jewish Legion. Jabotinsky strongly disapproves of Weizmann's alleged acquiescence in British attempts to whittle down the Zionist pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionists | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Enfant et les Sortileges, an opera ballet by Maurice Ravel with a libretto by Mme. Colette, was recently given its premier in Monte Carlo, will be heard in Paris next season and thereafter brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravel | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...Libretto. L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravel | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: I3c Worth | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...unknown and youthful pen arrived before the public eye. By degrees he worked himself up the literary ladder, grew to know and to be known. Practically all the contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unwritten History* | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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