Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIMOTHY'S FLOWER by Jean Van Leeuwen, illustrated by Moneta Barnett (Random House; $3.50). A touching story of a poor boy in New York City who finds and cherishes a single yellow flower...
...fantasies themselves are often glorious; visions of a black-haired white-robed maiden (Paula Pritchett) walking in superimposed images through various landscapes recur to everyone's satisfaction. Among Rooks' star-studdend hippie cast,--Jean-Louis Barrault excels as Harwick's doctor, at times involuntarily imitating the writhings of his tortured patient, trying bravely to comprehend the connection between the two divided worlds...
...Will you get rid of De Gaulle," asked President Kennedy in 1963, "or will De Gaulle get rid of you?" The question, addressed to young French Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, was meant only partly as a joke. Even then, Servan-Schreiber was the most eloquent, most influential-and most consistent-critic that le vieux Charles had to endure. As a liberal who believed in the West, he abhorred De Gaulle's rejection of the U.S. and Britain as partners in the development of Europe. As publisher of the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, he has constantly attacked Gaullist...
Anticlerical Novelist Roger Peyrefitte scandalized postwar France in 1945 with Les Amitiés Particulières, the story of a homosexual love affair between two boys in a Roman Catholic boarding school. As filmed by French Director Jean Delannoy, This Special Friendship turns out to be both poignant and disturbing. Its impact depends not on lubricity-the schoolboy crush at the center of the story is idealistic and unconsummated. It is based on Delannoy's deft projection of the human agony behind the cry of St. Paul: "For the good that I would...
Rooks is an amateur at film making, and it shows: plot coherence is not one of Chappaqua's strengths. Nevertheless, he lured Veteran French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault into playing a key role as the sanatorium's head doctor, and persuaded Sitarist Ravi Shankar to write a vibrant background score that often deservedly moves into the foreground. The film is otherwise peopled by a random collection of the current cool, including Novelist William Burroughs, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Jazzman Ornette Coleman in bit parts...