Word: et
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Academy." Since when has that body of so-called immortals, senescent gynophobes, honored Madame Colette? I know that she is the president of the lesser Académie Goncourt, and followed the Comtesse de Noailles as a member of the Belgian Académie Royal de Langue et de Littérature Française. But her membership in the Academic Française is news to me, as indeed it must be to that body itself...
...surprises me that Mr. Fisher et al., should be so eager to re-enter the field of the personal smear, a field at which they were once so much at home. Mr. Fisher, it will be remembered, submitted a 300-page secret report on Communism in the NSA to the Committee on un-American Activities. Mr. Fisher's report was termed "100% wrong," "misleading," and "scurrilous" by the officers of his own organization. Subsequently he was expelled from both the Student Council...
...film trots out Warner's full stable of stars-Doris Day, Ruth Roman, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Phil Harris, Jane Wyman, Frank Lovejoy et al. But the show's best number is a hilarious skit, "How to Bake a Pousse-Café Cake," performed by the nightclub team of Noonan & Marshall...
Monteux was born April 4, 1875, and studied at the Paris Conservatory. In 1911, as conductor of the Diaghilev Russian Ballet he introduced for the first time Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka," "Sacre du Printemps," and "Rossignol," Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chioe," and Claude Debussy's "Jeux...
...Columbia), a tall adventure tale of the French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...