Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DAYS WERE Too SHORT (335 pp.) -Marcel Pagnol-Doubleday...
...happy childhood. Still, there must be some adults who were happy kids, and occasionally a writer is bold enough to stand and be counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...
...countryside with a mother and father who loved him and a brother and sister who seemed never to arouse his resentment or cruelty. Their rundown, rented "villa" stood on a hillside in wild country that was a hunter's paradise. With his father, who had an antique shotgun, Marcel and a local Huck Finn type bagged enough birds to feed a battalion. They roamed the dramatic forests like the Comanches they pretended to be, and formed one of those enduring boyhood friendships that can later be seen as one of the milestones of a life. Young Marcel repaid...
...bassi [Be humble, be lowly]," and one of his most frequent prayers was "Lord, don't trust Philip." This humility, combined with a joyful spirit and a pride-pricking sense of humor, brightened 16th century Rome, as it does a new biography, St. Philip Neri, by French Author Marcel Jouhandeau (Harper...
...York's City Center, brilliant Pantomimist Marcel Marceau is doing everything from minor impressions of a high-wire performer to a wordless enactment of Gogol's The Overcoat; at the Phoenix Theater, Tyrone Guthrie's production of H.M.S. Pinafore slaps salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan...