Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerouac said he thinks Emily Dickinson, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and Marcel Proust, Jean Genet and William Faulkner the greatest prose writers. But "Hemingway was nowhere. He wrote childish sentences, like Beckett does...
Everything else about the production--the setting, the costuming, and the excellent entrescene score by Jean Prodromides--is either quaint or grotesque, but never bland. In this early play, his third, Brecht was already the brash, colorful, mystic iconoclast. All of his qualities are respected and encouraged in this successful production at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse...
Fearing a full-scale rising, Mba clamped a 6:30 p.m. curfew on the capital, then arrested Opposition Leader Jean-Hilaire Aubame, who had headed the short-lived provisional government. Though Aubame had never been particularly popular, the arrest ballooned him to heroic proportions in the eyes of the aroused public. The riots exploded with new violence, and in the glare of burning shops and houses, Libreville's French population-largely composed of old Indo-China and Algerian colons-noticed that only the Americans were spared the angry mob's violence...
Becket is a cerebral film spectacle based on the play by Jean Anouilh, in which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
...Jean Beliveau has squeezed another great year out of his aging self, and is third in the league in scoring. John Ferguson, another rookie surprise, has supplied brute force to the previously fast but small offense...