Word: frenchman
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...passengers was a Frenchman...
Last week Block, 24, a Belgian-born Frenchman who lives in Mexico City, was back before the judges* for another try at the Leventritt Award, which brings $1,000 in cash and appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Denver symphony orchestras. Onto a stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art paraded four other finalists: Ralph Votapek, who gracefully turned the willowy phrases of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4; Bela Szilagi, whose Brahms and Liszt were played with cohesive intensity; Marilyn Neeley, a petite brunette who mastered the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky with brute female strength...
...Alec Guinness, of all people, will reach Cambridge at the proper moment, very possibly to hear his name read out in the Tercentenary Theatre. Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller '17 may be there too, the Frenchman to see his building, the Dymaxionist for his 45th Reunion. The composer Elliot Carter '30 ought to have a degree by now; so perhaps should Erich Leinsdorf, the BSO's new conductor...
...morning shape-up and wounding another no, including many youngsters brought along on the theory that the S.A.O. would spare Moslems accompanied by children. European dockers had been tipped off beforehand and had kept out of sight. But enraged Moslems scrambling from the scene grabbed the first Frenchman they saw driving by, a hapless Sahara oil worker on leave, and cut his throat...
...FRENCHMEN. "We have a tendency to place ourselves as absolute criteria in the center of the universe and see anyone else as a departure from the normal. But, what is a Frenchman? A being with an ingrained sense of discomfort, mocking individualism, contemptuous, revolting against any incorporation into the mass...