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Beyond this, a great share of praise for the success of Finnegans Wake must go to Roger Graef, whose musical arrangements worked around and through the language and the acting to supply gaiety and pathos when required, and generally add immeasurably to the vitality of the production. Nora White Shattuck's choreogrpahy was also a prominent and amusing addition...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Finnegans Wake | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

...Mille's Fall River Legend (the Lizzie Borden case), Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free (three sailors on shore leave), Eugene Loring's Billy the Kid (life and death of the killer). Best of all, the museum's human exhibits proved far from musty. Standouts: ¶ Nora Kaye, 35, who returned to the company (after four years with the New York City Ballet) to revive the famed Pillar of Fire, in which she dances Hagar, the girl who is bitterly afraid of becoming an old maid. When the curtain parted to show Hagar sitting on her house steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...spouted eager advice while a barber shaved him or a waiter served lunch have been banished from the inner chambers. For intimate guidance, Mendès now relies on only three disciples-Jean Soutou, 43, and Claude Cheysson. 35, who are intelligent Quai d'Orsay types, and Simon Nora, 33, who is something of a financial wizard. Even emissaries specially summoned from as far away as Indo-China find themselves closeted with the young aides for lengthy interrogations, then see the well-briefed Premier himself for an hour or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Numbered Days | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

General Electric Theater (Sept. 26, 9-9:30 p.m.), an all-film show last year, starts off live with Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Gene Tierney, Luther Adler, Patric Knowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Deal null He worked most of it out himself. Back from Geneva, Mendès set up shop outside Paris in a hunting lodge in the forest of Marly. Outdoors, under the oaks, Mendès met his two economic brain-trusters: Georges Boris, 66, and young Simon Nora, 33. He looked over blueprints proposed by Finance Minister Edgar Faure, and reworded by Boris and Nora. "I seem to find nothing but old projects," he grumbled. "They are neither original nor daring." He wanted a program of "total economic conversion," to give a "psychological shock to the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Le New Deal | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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