Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed with General de Bollardière that things cannot go on as they are, all France seemed to be caught in a dialogue without decision. In the circumstances. Premier Guy Mollet's government might limp on a few months more, for lack of an alternative, but, said Figaro, "the rot is setting...
...great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation...
...remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning the U.S. not to make France choose "between her African vocation and her American friendship...
Poet Jean Cocteau gave it as his considered opinion that she was not a little girl but "an 80-year-old dwarf." A critic in Le Figaro said that her lines sparkled "with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Elle, France's biggest women's weekly, denounced her as a fake. They were all talking about nine-year-old Minou Drouet, whose poems launched a major cultural rhubarb in Paris (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955). Since then, Minou (a French pet name for "kitten") has fought back. When a critic sniffed that she should go back to her dolls, Minou...
...roll, the boy concentrated on Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The longhairs paid off. This week, at the age of seven, Joey took over Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, led the Symphony of the Air (formerly Toscanini's NBC Symphony) in a full-scale program including Mozart's Figaro overture, Beethoven's Fifth and Haydn's Surprise symphonies. His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heart-no timpanist could miss his cannonball cues. But sometimes he was vague. Several times, the baton flew from...