Word: jeu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where two people are preparing to make bought love. I find that most symbolic of current literature...
...also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...
Battery practice resulted in nothing more than a shock for the Mount Auburn Street humorists when they discovered that Prexy Coles Phinizy, slated to take the mound Thursday when the two teams meet in their annual jeu de baseball (Fr.), didn't know how to use resin or cut plug and had never heard...
...years ago Manhattan's up & coming Museum of Modern Art decided to invade Paris, to show the Parisians what U. S. artists had accomplished. Backed by its president and chief angel, genial, glamorless Nelson Rockefeller, the Museum staged an exhibition of U. S. art at the Jeu de Paume Gallery near the Louvre, invited Paris to come and take a look. So successful was the venture that the Modern Museum decided to go on from there, show Paris the artistic achievements of other American countries. Last summer President Rockefeller went to Mexico City to make arrangements for a Modern...