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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
...poem, said Pasternak, was written "in a black, pessimistic mood that has now passed." The very fact that Brown had plucked it out from all the others "shows what motivated the young man," the old man went on indignantly. Whether or not, as the Daily Mail insisted, Pasternak had known that his words would be published, the poem carried its own unmistakable message...
Cultural Backwater. Much of the credit for Rake's success goes to its director, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Paul Callaway, 49, organist and choirmaster at Washington Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal), who organized the Opera Society in 1956. In a city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...
WRITING: "The news writer is an artist. In its simplest terms, art is the business of selecting for effect-plus skill. The writer is the creative manipulator of the most plastic, the most resistant, the most mercurial and yet the stickiest substance known to man-the written word...
Gauguin's paintings are universally admired for the colors of a world sun-filled and yet without glare, various and yet disciplined like the rainbow. His woodcuts-generally printed in no more than two colors each-are far less known, but rightly emphasized in Chicago's show. Gauguin's Here We Love evokes that shadowland beneath the waterfall from which no traveler returns unchanged. His picture of a night-time bonfire conference is ominous with invisible evil (see below). Gauguin could create natural atmospheres with colors, and could create supernatural ones with ink alone...