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...through the discomfort of appearing as a lecturer, the painter had to interrupt a number of projects he had been working on at his studio on the French Riviera, including sets and costumes for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, illustrations for the book version and new stained-glass windows for Metz's 13th century cathedral, damaged by Nazi bombs. But to Marc Chagall, all this did not seem enough. "It seems to me that I am just beginning," he said. "It seems that I have done very little in life...
...Paris U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton urged moderation on Felix Gaillard, and in Tunis Ambassador Lewis Jones did the same with Bourguiba. At week's end Secretary John Foster Dulles, who had summoned French Ambassador Herve Alphand to his home the day after the Sakiet bombing, prepared to interrupt a long-planned vacation to take personal charge of U.S. efforts to ease the crisis...
...know you guys up at Harvard put an emphasis on individualism and that's fine," he said refusing to acknowledge my deprecatory gesture an attempt to interrupt. "But down here we like a less impersonal way of living so you like and can be with who you want for your friends and choose the guys you eat with...
...lines, Docking played the genial host. He put signs outside his office: "Come right in. The doors are closed only in the interest of efficient air conditioning." He made himself available to politicos, welcomed daily press conferences (and set up a coffeemaker for newsmen in his office suite), would interrupt almost any affair of state to have his picture taken with plain folks, who came in steady streams to pay their respects...
...until two years after he first set pencil to paper did Ingres, then 72, interrupt the honeymoon of his second marriage to complete the painting. Every line of the light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene...