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...Quintet No. 2 for Piano and Strings, a vigorous, passionate work whose rich coloration took on a special sheen in the sonically clean, echoless hall; Darius Milhaud's Eighth Symphony, describing the flow of the Rhone to the sea, which happily combined the gusty exuberance of the Frenchman's early works with the sunny lyricism of his later ones; Roger Sessions' serene, atmospheric Quintet with Two Violas, performed without its third movement, which the composer was unable to complete by festival time...
...commands. The unrest in the French army, which has aroused nervous talk abroad of a military coup, is still largely confined to a few embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary Frenchman, he is too busy enjoying his nation's unprecedented prosperity to feel anything more than weary apathy toward politics. Last week saw two new records set in Paris. One was for the number of private cars leaving the city on weekend jaunts into the countryside; the other was for the number...
...Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home, the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops of France said: "Every Frenchman must love his country and be prepared to serve it without hating othe.' countries." Last week La Mission de France, a society of 400 priests headed by Achille Cardinal Lienart, condemned French abuses and sympathized with the Algerians' drive for independence: "The church is not opposed...
...born Louise (hence, from a childish lisp. Ouida) Rame, in Bury St. Edmunds. Her father, a mysterious Frenchman, may or may not have been a spy for Louis Napoleon. As she grew up, she displayed a tough mind and an absurd imagination-something between Racine and Edward Lear, says Biographer Stirling. When she insisted on behaving like her own fictional characters (e.g., flinging an ivory cigar case from her opera box at the feet of an Italian tenor), it became clear that England was not for her nor she for England...
...deeply impressed by your article. A Frenchman myself, I have the same feelings as you about the killing of these poor innocent victims. But, to be fair, do you think that such horrible things can be easily avoided in a war and especially when planes are involved? During the last war my own town of Nantes was bombed several times by U.S. planes and thousands of women and children killed. And the first bombing occurred on a market day; victims were in the streets waving to these very planes that were on the way to kill them. No military target...