Word: idylls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl-only to find half the French press corps camped in Papeete for the latest French A-bomb tests. So now the honeymooners chartered a yacht and sailed away among the islands, feasting on roast pig and gazing at the mushroom clouds...
Never meaning to spoil his idyl, François expands it when he meets and swiftly succumbs to a vivacious blonde postal clerk (Marie-France Boyer). The girl becomes his mistress, and he is happier than ever. One day, at yet another family picnic, his wife asks why. François forthrightly explains: "You, me, the kids, we're like an apple orchard inside a fence. Then I see another apple outside-." Though she is not at all sure that she likes those apples, the wife lets François make love to her once more while the children...
Integrated Idyl. Actually, Bruce and other county officials have worked imaginatively to remove the causes of Negro resentment. The county established a human-rights commission two years ago, held race-relations courses for sheriff's deputies, pledged funds for a Marin City community center. Most of the town's 1,500 jerry-built wartime housing units have been torn down, and officials are making a start at finding jobs for Negro youths. What has lifted hopes highest, however, is Marin City's unique "reverse integration" campaign to attract non-Negro residents...
Good autobiographers should have happy childhoods, when the nightingales were singing in the orchards of their mothers. Robert Strausz-Hupé is such a one. His childhood was a hazy idyl of life in old Vienna, of goose-liver breakfasts on the paternal estate in Hungary. This Eden soon closed its gates, but at 62 he still has a vivid memory of what life was like on the sunny side of the great watershed of World...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...