Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). A French-made dramatized documentary, The Boss's Son, deals with the predictable demise of the romance between a textile magnate's son and one of his father's factory girls...
Some stay around Antioch for their work term. The dance troupe has become quite good, they say. Some just stay around. There is the case of the student who refuses to take a French course, and while waiting for the college to change its language requirement, has taken over the local film monopoly, teaches the folk-dancing courses (which satisfy physi- cal education requirements), goes to Greek feasts...
...these set a rare ambiance for a formidable showing. The group of three graduate students who set up the show made a selection representative of Winthrop's own preferences, accentuating French drawings and Chinese jades and bronzes. There are fabulous ritual bronzes--my favorites are a big bell from the Chou dynasty and a pouring vessel with a lion's head at the front and an owl on its back...
Winthrop's collection of Ingres, third largest in the world, is complemented by Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, and Gericault. The drawings from Blake's illustrations of Dante, including a wonderful Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep, and the pre-Raphelite drawings make the English drawing a contingent rival of the French. The single Van Gogh portrait drawing is my favorite...
Uneasy Marriage. Yet the authors predict that the 1968 setback is temporary. "When the movement takes the offensive again, its dynamism will return," they claim. "One day the barricades will surely be raised again." But they admit that this will not happen until long-established barriers between French workers and intellectuals are torn down. The May events proved that the marriage between the two factions was at best merely convenient...