Word: lipp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geraniums. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 16, Mitterrand left the Brasserie Lipp, favorite haunt of Parisian journalists and politicians, and headed in his blue Peugeot 403 for his apartment on the fashionable Rue Guynemer...
After a brief flurry of debate, the Assembly approved, 337 to 173, with only the Communists and the Poujadistes in opposition. With victory secured, Gaillard and Bourges climbed into a new Citroen and joined Mme. Gaillard at the Brasserie Lipp, a Left Bank restaurant which is the traditional spot for French Premiers to celebrate their election to or ejection from office. There, a birthday cake topped with a model of the Assembly building awaited him. As he prepared to cut into it, Assembly President Andre Le Troquer protested. "Don't cut up the Assembly! You've already...
...round out its imposing operatic catalogue. London has also released The Marriage of Figaro (4 LPs), with Hilde Gueden, Danco and Siepi, and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Erich Kleiber, and The Magic Flute (3 LPs), with Gueden, Wilma Lipp, Simoneau and Berry, conducted by Karl Bohm. Both are first-rate performances and, as a bonus, the albums contain the complete musical scores...
Mozart: The Magic Flute (Wilma Lipp and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Anton Dermota, tenor; Erich Kunz, baritone; Ludwig Weber, bass; chorus of the Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The kind of crack performance, with its own unique Gemütlichkeit, that makes music lovers trek to Salzburg every summer. A new Marriage of Figaro, with the same orchestra and conductor and some of the same cast, offers more of the same happy spirit. Both recordings: excellent...
...there were plenty of smaller prizes. A group of writers who like to dine in the Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert...