Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...
...company had drawn on the talents of such famed members as Michel (Petroushka) Fokine, Vaslav (Afternoon of a Faun) Nijinsky, Leonide (Boutique Fantasque) Massine, Bronislava (Les Noces) Nijinska. For the most part, in their choreography, they had developed luxuriant numbers flush with gestures, elaborate costumes and scenery. With Diaghilev's blessing. Balanchine launched a one-man revolution of the right: he went back to severe, classic principles. Instead of involved, fairy-tale plots, he shaved his storylines down to wisps of familiar, ancient legends. Thus began his continuing battle to reduce ballet to its fundamentals: the dance itself...
...Anita Boyer Field, 36, wife of party-lining Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, headed off into Mexico early this month. Her voluntary move was made, with Justice's blessing, so that she might avoid deportation on charges that she illegally entered the U.S. from Canada. With her went Michel, 12, and Elise, 9, her children by Dr. Raymond Boyer, former McGill University chemistry professor who did a two-year stretch for passing Canadian secrets to Soviet spies during World...
14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...
This was too much for John Calvin. One Genevan had written his Catholic cousin in France, reproaching him for allowing a heretic like Servetus to live unmolested in Catholic territory. When the cousin asked for details, Calvin gave the documentary proof that Dr. Michel de Villeneuve was indeed Michael Servetus, the man who had denounced the Trinity...