Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn presented the widow of Marshal of France Jean de Lattre de Tassigny the posthumous award of the Legion of Merit for "sustained combat operations in the struggle against Communism...
...festival was planned to include at least one composition from each nation in good standing, so that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled...
...Jean Lurçat, French tapestry artist, has a recurring dream. He is in Paris, walking across the Place de la Concorde toward the Hotel Crillon. Suddenly, the grey old Crillon is transformed before his eyes. The roof is covered with tapestries, the front groans with tapestries, the sides sag with tapestries. A cheering multitude salutes him. In a twinkling, Paris is smothered with tapestries-all by Lurçat. "Ah," grins Lurçat, "what a wonderful dream...
...Paris knows, Jean Lurçat's rosy dream might come true. Europe is in the midst of a tapestry boom, and Lurçat can take much of the credit. A onetime cubist painter, he started designing tapestries shortly before World War II. His idea was that most contemporary work, modeled on the tastes of 18th century boudoir muralists, was too fussy and too expensive. Lurçat drew up designs with a simpler look, chose a few basic colors, and hired weavers at Aubusson's famed factories to turn them out. His 1946 show...
Unlike such contemporaries as James Boswell and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gray not only refused to wear his heart on his sleeve but made sure that it was permanently hidden in his boots. His letters contain no horrifying confessions, no enlightening details of an intimate nature. They describe him merely as one who was occasionally attacked by black despondency but whose usual condition was the more negative one of "white Melancholy" -"A good, easy sort of state," Thomas Gray once called it. "The only fault of it is insipidity...