Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance as an excuse, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character...
...DIFFICULTY OF BEING by Jean Cocteau. 160 pages. Coward-McCann...
...Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) may not have been a great artist, but he was great as an artist. He was a flashing volcano of creation and affectation in many arts, but he was best known for his strange novels (Thomas l'Imposteur, Les Enfants Terribles), his baroque plays (The Infernal Machine, The Human Voice) and, above all, his otherworldly films (The Blood of a Poet, The Eternal Return, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus, Les Enfants Terribles). He was also given to scandalous public poses as an overt homosexual and self-confessed drug user. But unlike Oscar Wilde, who tripped...
...Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...
...opened an information-swapping center in Vienna. After Hitler grabbed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo spirited the records to Berlin, where wartime bombing later destroyed them. In 1946, Interpol was reborn in Paris to combat postwar crime. It got a charter, a general assembly and a secretary-general-currently Jean Nepote, 52, a French Sûreté Nationale commissioner on leave. One-third of Nepote's 90-odd staffers are French detectives; most of his $500,000 annual budget is paid in dues by member countries-98 of them, from America to Yugoslavia (the only Communist country...