Word: gamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite pose of the very young is to abandon hope because they still have so much. One of the best-paid literary practitioners of this kind of premature despair is Paris' intellectual gamin, Françoise Sagan, just turned 21. As readers who pushed the sales of Bonjour Tristesse past the million mark know, Sagan wears her world-weary rue with a spicy difference. In her novels, sin triumphs over everything but syntax. This high-styled amorality led one French critic to sum up her work as "classicism in panties...
...German girls' school, Maedchen has all the characters one would expect. At one extreme, there is the headmistress, who is the essence of rigidity, both in attitude and in bearing (she appears to be slightly rheumatic). At the other, there are the repressed girls, led by one especially revolutionary gamin. Between them are the two figures who bear the main stress of the struggle, the sensitive orphan who needs sympathy and the teacher who must endanger her position to give the girl the love she needs. This plot has the makings of a very moving drama, but its potential...
...literary figure as contentious as he is unpredictable. The new member: Jean Cocteau, poet, painter, novelist, dancer, movie producer (Blood of a Poet), playwright, poseur and talker. Now 66 and still savoring his reputation as France's esthetic enfant terrible, Cocteau in times past has taken a gamin's delight in cocking a snook at the stuffy academicians. But things change, he explained, and "one wants to be oneself and yet the opposite." Like others before him, nonconformist Cocteau had succumbed to "the Green Fever," the desire to wear the gold-embroidered green uniform of the academy...
...Manhattan apartment, the brand-new Brando emerged to pose for photographers in a green Tyrolean hat that suspiciously resembled a homburg, and he comported himself as if he were a rising young banker about to catch the 5:17 for the suburbs. Josane, pert with her carelessly gamin hairdo, looked a trifle moonstruck-but also like a fisherwoman sure of her catch. While in conference with his fiancee, Brando had changed the wedding date: the wild bells would now ring out some time this month...
...moving the show to television, CBS's West Coast vice president in charge of network programs, Harry Ackerman, searched hard and long for a properly glamorous pair of young marrieds. He finally decided on Hollywood's Joan Caulfield ("She has some kind of half-woman, half-gamin, half-childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband is long on character, short on plot, and played for laughs. It does buck a few popular trends: unlike most TV husbands, Nelson has a modicum...