Word: merci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill it, her belle-dame-sans-merci credentials already well in hand...
Because of the light-the shattering clarity that had seduced so many artists-Painter Marc Chagall in 1950 left Paris to live on the Riviera. Last week Chagall, now 79, said merci to the land of azure waters with a $2,000,000 gift: 17 major oils and 50 gouaches and watercolors, representing much of his last twelve years' work, which will be housed in a government-financed Chagall museum in Nice. When it is completed in 1968, the memorial will take its place beside the Riviera's three other museums dedicated to modern masters: Picasso...
Ambassador Thai also denied James Reston's report of last summer that the peasantry consider their rulers in Saigon "as merely the successors of the French colonial regime, with the upperclass urban Vietnamese replacing the French." "That's not true any more," he said, while accepting a cigarette "Merci...
...look chic, Jeanne," said Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of France's Prime Minister, to the milkmaid at the Pompidous' country place. Jeanne was indeed a fetching sight: gold sandals, gay striped frock in the latest mode, gleaming pearl fingertips. "Merci, madame," replied Jeanne. Then she explained how a farmer's daughter so far from Paris could keep up so surely with style changes: "I read Elle...
...very good correction. The catalogue is wrong. Merci...