Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
...Blacks, by Jean Genet. Unsentimental in attitude, ritualistic in form, poetic in language, this unconventional play is a remarkable work of art on the color question...
...West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened at Brussels was bad. Bad for us, bad for Europe...
...Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Française. "Even to set the covers of L'Histoire d'O ajar is to open...
...Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...