Word: exup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story-high geodesic sphere to the pioneering functionalism of Habitat 67 (where Pearson has an apartment) and Canada's own inverted pyramid Katimavik (Eskimo for gathering place). The unifying theme of the exposition, "Man and His World," is taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Terre des Homines and his ringing affirmation: "To be a man is to feel that by carrying one stone you can contribute to the building of the world." Fittingly enough, there have never before been so many government sponsored exhibitions (Expo's 62 countries easily top the 42 at Brussels...
...Bella, which by last week blossomed into a full-scale ideological struggle, with Ben Bella backed by Egypt's Nasser and a host of black African nations. Dramatizing its case against Morocco's supposedly "feudal" and "imperialist" regime, Algeria broadcast a parody of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, with Hassan in the title role and a supporting cast of Uncle Sam, King Farouk and David Ben-Gurion...
Teaching helped keep Dallapiccola going, but his name began to be heard after the 1940 premiere of his first opera, Night Flight, based on the book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. During the war Dallapiccola went into hiding in the mountains to protect his Jewish wife from the German forces in Italy. Since the war, his reputation has steadily grown as he has added to his small body of work a number of impressive vocal compositions: Five Fragments from Sappho for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone, Two Anacreon Songs and Requiescat (set to words...
...SAINT-EXUPÉRY (330 pp.) - Marcel Migeo-McGraw-Hill...
...grouchy skeptics who asked whether the machine age had given the human race anything except autos and creeping concrete, air conditioning and smog. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had an impassioned answer. Man's great new gift was the earth, seen from the air. "Saint-Ex" despised the age, but accepted its gift with a mystical joy. He reacted to flight as Coleridge did to opium, with occasionally calamitous results, and wrote of the air-in Night Flight, Flight to Arras and Wind, Sand and Stars-better than anyone since...