Word: michel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PANTAGLEIZE. History is a farce, says Michel de Ghelderode in his play about one lovely day when a man looking for his destiny collides with a revolution, and owing to circumstances beyond their comprehension or control, they destroy each other...
...Michel Simon) is the peasant patriarch-a ramshackle curmudgeon who feeds his doddering dog with a fork, refuses to eat the rabbits that are mainstays of the family wartime diet, worships Marshal Petain, and fervently believes that Jews are responsible for most of the woes of mankind. The story concerns the deepening love of man and boy for each other, in a world neither of them understands...
...employees are putting in half an hour work per day without pay for the rest of the year. The proceeds from this go into a kitty to pay for transportation, food and ski lessons. The French government, too, has pitched in. When Duhamel explained the project, Finance Minister Michel Debré agreed to waive about $9,000 in company taxes and social security payments a year. Thus, with a snow-and-sew fund of $60,000, St. Sorlin is expected...
Yale then closed the gap by capturing the next three positions in closely-contested matches. Michel Scheinmann, John Whitbeck, and Fritz Hobbs all fell in five games...
PANTAGLEIZE is Michel de Ghelderode's inventive celebration of the individual "unfit for anything except love, friendship and ardor," and a condemnation of our "autodisintegrated age." The APA production projects much of the excitement and magic typical of the Belgian playwright...