Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's philosophizing Bertrand Russell, after one of his end-of-the-world radio speeches about nuclear warfare last winter, came a glowing fan letter from French Physicist Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Recalls Russell: "I was particularly appreciative of getting a letter from him because of the fact that he is a noted Communist. One of my principal purposes was ... to unite men of science." An idea popped into Russell's head: Why should not the leading scientists of East and West join in a statement that would warn the world about the disastrous...
...prestige and power of handsome, autocratic Prince Rainier lay under eclipse. With Monaco's solvency teetering in the balance, Rainier's National Council stepped in, began a searching investigation. First move: to persuade French police to arrest Banker Liambey in his villa at nearby Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat...
...ballet to dance out the love he did not put into words. The old Marquis de Cuevas, 70, the world's biggest-spending balletomane, agreed to contribute his own ballet company to the project; the chorus and orchestra of the Concerts Colonne were engaged to work under Conductor Jean Martinon. The Louvre authorities, fearful of fire, were tougher to persuade: they held out for a full month, until the committee guaranteed to fireproof the outdoor stage, to station a fire truck at the entrance and a fireboat alongside in the Seine...
There are eight "great themes" for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the new studies. The big themes (based on a study of 150 westerns): 1) the birth of a nation, 2) gold prospecting, 3) the frontier and the great plains, 4) the linking of east and west, 5) men and beasts, 6) the War of Secession, 7) Indian warfare, 8) representative westerners...
...postwar western is gradually moving away from "naive grandeur" toward social documentation and psychological detail, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's monthly Les Temps Modernes: "The 'neo-western' has developed in the direction of ambiguity . . . Under the double influence of 'black' films and psychoanalytical films, westerns have enriched themselves with a clinical description of the half-crazy desperadoes who roam the desert." Examples: Rawhide Ranger (1941) and Coroner Creek...