Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratroop officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French army," the outspoken colonel gave him an earful. Dismissing General Raoul Salan, commander of French forces in Algeria, with the mocking nickname "Papa" Salan, old Noncom Bigeard hammered away...
...stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free "for the good of Provincetown." He acts as second ticket-taker at his museum (and makes the volunteer workers pay the going $1.50 for the catalogue), while his wife Jean handles lunch-relief shifts at the festival gates. Some Provincetowners have found Chrysler's headlong pursuit of culture distasteful, but they appreciate "the artistic climate created" by his enterprise...
...faced with the Imperator of Roman decadence," cried Paris Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. "We [will] no longer be in the republican tradition," mourned famed Historian Andre Siegfried. These were almost the only voices decisively raised last week when Premier Charles de Gaulle unveiled his proposed new constitution for France. De Gaulle submitted it to a 39-man Constitutional Consultative Committee, and, in a characteristic touch, gave them precisely 20 days to consider...
...Jean Dubuffet, the only Ecole de Paris painter whose painting philosophy they felt matched their own. Their final choices ranged from Elaine de Kooning's near realistic portrait of husband Willem to the abstract Black Forms by East Hampton's John Little, in which a human form can be seen with some imagination...
...Jean-Paul Sartre's one-act play No Exit will be the next production of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, next week on Aug. 14, 15, and 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Union...