Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though a youthful convert to Marxism, he toyed for a time with Catholicism to the point of considering taking monastic vows. His first of several dozen novels-and perhaps his best -was the Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples, a piquant, picaresque satire a la Voltaire of both Western capitalism and the Communist Revolution, still considered heretical in Russia...
Today le Crocodile is 63, white-haired, bespectacled - and rich. He and Wife Simone Thion de la Chaume La coste, herself a onetime amateur golf champion, have three houses and move with the season. As he has grown older, Lacoste has turned more and more of a broad business empire over to his sons. Bernard Lacoste, 36, a Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company...
...reflecting much of the same hushed awe of his Manzoni Requiem; not mentioned in the standard Verdi catalogue, the song was flushed out of an obscure Italian library by Verdi Scholar David Stivender. Other long-lost scores, such as the charming and perky Wind Quintet by Ponchielli (of La Gioconda fame) were found in editions long out of print...
...remembered the name. Competitors like Big Bill Tilden had worn starched long-sleeved men's shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable in them that he had a British haberdasher make him cotton polo shirts with collars attached. When other tennis players adopted the shirt, La coste himself went into business making sports shirts and took the crocodile as his trademark. At first the shirts were almost all white and sales were restricted to France; since the war, how ever, Lacoste has branched out in col ors (20 now) and countries...
...Thief of Paris. The outlaw has been an object of fascination for the French cinema from Pepe le Moko to La Guerre Est Finie. In Thief, the subject for study is Jean-Paul Belmondo, an impenitent housebreaker operating in the gleaming fin de siecle Paris...