Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JEAN BOSSON...
Last month a 23-year-old Parisian climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc all alone. Inspired by his success, two other ambitious young mountaineers, Parisian Jean Vincendon, 23, and Belgian François Henry, 22, decided to have a try at its challenging heights. They set out early in the morning of Dec. 22. The sky was blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache...
...great moralist." Albert Camus argued that Sade explained Naziism's "reduction of man to an object of experiment." Psychologists conceded that in his recognition of the impulse to cruelty in sexual relations, he anticipated some of Freud's thinking. Responding to this interest, alert, young Publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert printed a 28-volume set of Sade's complete works, put them on public sale for the first time in France in unexpurgated form...
...outrage of morality through books," Pauvert was defended by France's most prominent criminal lawyer, Maurice Garçon. Morals are a function of a certain time and place, Garçon argued. Bigamy, once punishable by death, is now simply fined. Abortion is legal in some countries. Jean Cocteau sent a letter arguing: "To attack Sade is to attack Jean Jacques Rousseau. The slightest mystery story from puritanical America is just as nefarious." Concluded Garçon: "Sade is important. We cannot let false prudery prevent us from studying him. That is against all scientific doctrine...
...Keith Monroe, 39, of San Francisco; Painter Walter Kuhlman, 38, of San Francisco; Architects Frederick Kiesler, 64, of New York City and Paul Nelson, 62, an American now practicing in Paris; Painter-Film-Maker James Edward Davis, 55, of Princeton, N.J.; Chicago Photographer Harry Callahan, 44, and French Critic Jean Leymarie...