Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JEAN P. FITZGERALD...
Aside from the Communist press, only Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's weekly L'Express complained aloud, gloomily predicting "a terrorized silence of all daily newspapers." In his new post Soustelle also has the right to hire and fire anyone on the state-owned French radio and television, which gives him far more authority there than over the printed word. In Algeria, news of the appointment made the wavering Moslems cooler to De Gaulle, while the colons' Committee of Public Safety proclaimed a victory. Others saw Soustelle's appointment as a neatly timed maneuver to deprive...
Credit for opening up the field to modern artists belongs to Jean Verrier,* who as inspector general of historic monuments made a bold effort to end rigidly traditional restoration. But the man who most energetically carried on the crusade was a Dominican monk, Father Marie-Alain Couturier (TIME, June 20, 1949 et seq.). Before his death in 1954, he sought out artists in their studios, urged them to try their talents at sacred art in modestly abstract and semi-abstract styles. The first significant experiment was the installation of windows by famed Georges Rouault in the small modern Alpine church...
...window air conditioner. The machine's intake, on the street side, was obstructed by two nests of the common starling. The mites had attached themselves to the starlings, but when the machine was switched on, they were vacuumed out of the plumage, into the bedroom and onto Jean T.'s sensitive skin...
...pots. Has the time come to revive the tradition? Suggesting that the answer is yes, Paris' swank Galerie Charpentier last week had on display ten brand-new refrigerators decorated by ten top Paris painters. The show, called "The Nobility of the Everyday Object," was billed by Poet-Painter Jean Cocteau as "a victory over the negative style of emptiness." Said Jours de France: "The most bizarre show of the year...