Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CASTLE TO CASTLE, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, is the final novel in a crazed autobiographical trilogy by the demented French physician-genius who apparently viewed the body of modern society with complete revulsion...
...abroad, one of the most heartfelt was a message from Charles de Gaulle, the last of the towering figures of World War II. "For me," said De Gaulle, "I see disappear with great sadness a dear companion in arms and a friend." Despite his differences with the U.S., the French President was the first foreign head of state to announce that he would fly to Washington for the funeral. Scrawled in the book of condolences at the American embassy in Paris was a message from an unknown Frenchman: "To General Eisenhower, in deep homage also to those who fell...
With a Soviet SST and the Anglo-French Concorde already being successfully test-flown, what has delayed the American SST? Two years ago, the U.S. made the decision to build an SST. Later, Boeing, the contract winner, encountered major design problems: its radical swing-wing concept was an economic disaster. The engineers went back to their drawing boards and last fall came up with another SST, this time a fixed delta-wing titanium plane capable of cruising at a speed of 1,800 m.p.h. while carrying more than 250 passengers 4,000 miles...
...equal-with the qualification that he is much funnier. All the best jokes are family jokes, and the British Establishment is one of the closest of all cultural families. One no more needs to be a member of it to relish Anthony Powell than one needs to be a French homosexual with aristocratic friends to enjoy Proust. Like the peculiar British fondness for cold toast, though, a taste for Powell's prose is best acquired through prolonged exposure...
...immensely theatrical score; Joseph Stein did the adaptation from the Kazantzakis novel; and producer director Harold Prince tied it all together with a finesse the likes of which have not been seen since Jerome Robbins' heyday. Herschel Bernardi is the man of Crete and Maria Karnilova is his French lady friend. They have a strong assist from gutsy-voiced Lorraine Serabian, who heads a Greek chorus. At the IMPERIAL, W. 45th...