Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This peace conference of the mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
...decided that to make good tapestries once again, Aubusson (285 miles directly south of Paris) needed a return to the good old days. He managed to interest a few fellow-artists (notably Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and up-&-coming Paris Painter Marcel Gromaire) in making properly simple tapestry designs, hired four Aubusson weavers to work them out in the ancient way. Then came the German occupation. While his weavers labored, Lurçat became a leader in the French underground...
...last winter's electric power crisis, wanted to know why it was necessary to have a Communist Minister of Production in order to cut off the electric current. Thorez' wife retorted that two factors, lack of coal and the drought, had caused the power shortage. Production Minister Marcel Paul had spurred the miners on to increase coal production until it exceeded the prewar level. Then salty Jeannette Vermeersch added with a wink: "And, comrades, we don't believe in God-but it rained. Today there is plenty of current...
...opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house...
...Marcel Petiot's 63 murders did not impress the atrocity-hardened French. But they were impressed by his agile defense and sheer gall last week in a trial in which his condemnation had seemed certain. Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...