Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crown Is Mine." "Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...
...followed by Dumas' Anthony, a more sensational success than Henri III. Paris was ravished by Anthony's closing speech: "She resisted me. I have assassinated...
...Change. The Algiers regime stood on its record, and on its plan for returning liberated France to constitutional democracy (TIME, Dec. 13). Admiral Jean François Darlan, the puppet and symbol of Allied expediency, was dead; General Henri Honoré Giraud, the later instrument of expediency, was in eclipse. Their alternative and countersymbol, General de Gaulle, was no longer the sole and dominant symbol of Fighting France. The Liberation Committee and its corollary advisory Consultative Assembly had to some extent overshadowed him. All responsible observers in Algiers, including some who had opposed De Gaulle, now recognized the fact that...
...Alternatives. London and Washington seemed to have three choices: 1) recognition of the Algiers government now or soon after France is invaded; 2) support in one way or another of Marshal Henri Pétain; or 3) an attempt to postpone the whole issue, deal with France during the invasion interim as a military area. The overwhelming testimony of Frenchmen in France and out was that either alternative to recognition of Algiers would lead to bloody disaster: Frenchmen slaying Frenchmen, bitter hatred between Frenchmen and their "liberators...
...without a hearing, was the magazine View, slick 75?quarterly devoted almost entirely to art with a capital A. The objected-to material: reproductions of 1) surrealist nudes by Leon Kelley, 2) Picasso's Le Minotaure (in a Manhattan gallery's advertisement). Poet-Editor Charles Henri Ford stood up to fight...