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Jacques Monod is a young (29) French conductor who believes that U.S. musical society is awash in stagnation, apathy and confusion. He sees major orchestras playing programs they could have played (and sometimes did) a century before, their musicians bored and cynical, their conductors hamstrung by bosses who are afraid...
Worse in Paris. Jacques Monod is a conductor almost against his will. Born near Paris, he was propelled to the piano by his pianist mother; he gave his first concert at nine, and he has hated the piano ever since ("I don't even own one now"). Monod is...
Casablanca's daily Maroc-Presse braved threats, bombings and assassinations last year in the classic role of a newspaper sticking courageously to an unpopular editorial position. By urging negotiation with moderate Moroccan nationalists, the paper outraged French extremists, who beat up its staffers, smashed its offices, machine-gunned Publisher...
Anxious to promote his Cause at every opportunity, Chafee has served on many private and public bodies investigating freedom of the press and speech. In the late twenties he acted as counsel to the National Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement. Form 1943 to '47 Chafee, along with Jacques Maritain...
Baschet's first musical invention was a collapsible guitar, built around an inflatable plastic cushion. It has a soft, seductive tone, can be deflated or patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris...