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Among the things Briton White writes about are hunting, the schooling of hunting birds and beasts (Falconry, White insists, "is not a hobby or an amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior...
...eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point of a flamboyant career was his 1951 marriage to German-born Elizabeth Ziegler. Ten jazz bands played wedding music; flocks of jazz fans sang and danced in the streets; doves and champagne surrounded the couple...
Houphouet first became the idol of his people shortly after World War II, when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading...
Black Eye. Newspaper columnists and indignant M.P.s bent angrily over the fallen idol. Hissed the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra": "While he was a-mewing and a-puling in his cot, at least 2,000,000 young men of about the same age as he is now [19] went to war against Germany and Italy. Almost every man jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical...
...heels of East of Eden, the Brattle's showing this week is the second in the trilogy of James Dean's acting epics, Rebel Without a Cause*. Originally released shortly after Dean's untimely death four years ago this movie, more than any other, established him as the acting idol and representative of an entire generation...