Word: jeanes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midst of a booming technological age, ancient crafts have managed not only to survive, but actually flourish. A prime example is France's centuries-old weaving industry, which was revitalized by a handful of dedicated artists headed by Jean Lurcat and Marcel Gromaire during the grim days of the World War II German occupation. Working in Aubusson close to the looms, and designing sketches in some 50 colors (v. 1,440 tones used by 19th century weavers), modern French tapestry designers have made the old craft into a contemporary medium...
Happy Pixy. At first glance the situation seems appalling. Has the town that nourished the pneumatic legends of Theda Bara and Clara Bow and Jean Harlow sold out to a giggly beer drinker? Answers...
...House of Intellect. When she first met Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a fellow student at the Sorbonne. "Except when he's asleep. Sartre thinks all the time!" a friend told Simone. Petrified, she entered Sartre's lair for a day-long talkathon on her metaphysical treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River...
...raised the banner of European unity in the years just after World War II had no such subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France's Jean Monnet, the intense, brilliant economist who heads the Action Committee for a United States of Europe, they planned to construct united Europe through a series of economic, political and military bodies, each of which would possess supranational powers in a limited field...
...Straw Man, by Jean Giono. All the world's a stage, and all men either players or played upon, in this operatic tale of revolt in 19th century Italy...