Word: gr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father Grégoire Lemercier, prior of St. Mary of the Resurrection monastery near Cuernavaca, Mexico, believes that psychoanalysis is good for the soul-especially the soul of the monk. Convinced that too many men enter the cloister out of fear of the world or from a sense of sexual inadequacy, Benedictine Lemercier five years ago encouraged the monks and postulants at St. Mary's to undertake group-therapy sessions. As a result, 40 of them decided that they did not have a true vocation and left, but Lemercier is sure that St. Mary's is the better...
...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...
Somehow the fizz was out of the champagne during Paris' fashion showings last week. Chanel showed suits, Grès had a tent-shaped evening gown, St. Laurent showed exaggerated sailor suits and transparent organza dresses. But after Rome, it all seemed flat until Barbra Streisand, Broadway's freewheeling funny girl, showed up on her first trip abroad to add some zing and zest to the proceedings...
...18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before the royal train arrived, and the Abendzeitung hung out a banner headline: GRÜSS GOTT, MAJESTÄT (God's blessing, Your Majesty...
Other designers' offerings ran true to form: Grės' intricate chiffons, Castillo's long slim crepes, Capucci's stiff white collars. Pierre Cardin still reigned as Lord High Poohbah of Limp, displayed a group of floppy fashions and judged the season's loveliest. But with the Big Three-St. Laurent, Balenciaga and Givenchy-still three weeks away from showtime, the season was less past than prelude. The shape of things to come may still be drastically altered-but so, of course, can dresses already ordered...