Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Comes Naturally. Vinogradov became a buddy of one of France's richest capitalists, Marcel Boussac, lunched with Novelist Françoise Sagan, shot pheasant on the great Alsace estate of Socialite Jean de Beaumont. Recently, watching him move familiarly among the swarms of film stars, writers, ministers, generals, and artists at the Soviet embassy, Millionaire Boussac archly remarked: "There goes France's most fashionable ambassador...
...Grand March Like the high drama that it is, the Fifth Republic of France has its commanding star, but it also has a supporting cast around Charles de Gaulle that is determined to maintain the mystical sense of grandeur. "We will try to accomplish the dream of France," declared Novelist Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux, after taking over as Minister of State in Charge of Cultural Affairs, "to give back life to its past genius, to give life to its present genius, and to welcome the genius of the world." Last week as Malraux rose to explain his unprecedented...
...academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with his whole life." He went on to censure the "passions" that created the contradiction "between the words of the man standing and the murmurs of the man recumbent." Novelist Jules (Men of Good Will) Romains, went farther, assured the 40 "immortals" of the academy that it was untrue that "Herriot died denying the concepts of Herriot alive," and deplored the "exploitation of the 'last hours' of an illustrious...
...York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Thomas Schippers presented Samuel Barber's rarely performed Knoxville: Summer of 1915, set to the prose poem by James Agee, novelist and film critic who died in 1955. Conductor Schippers provided a well-balanced performance, nicely graduated to Soprano Leontyne Price's clear and controlled reading of the text. If the piece itself had a weakness, it was the tendency to overly luxuriant melody, at odds with the simplicity and the subtle rhythm of the language. Example: the line "he has coiled the hose'' had Soprano Price soaring dramatically over...
Bixler's trademark has been a constant stream of exciting outside lecturers. One week he mustered Educator Robert Hutchins, Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Industrialist Clarence Randall, Novelist Robert Penn Warren. Sometimes the results startled Bixler himself. "I am continually delighted by the student response," he once said. "There is this marvelous rising to quality. They know the genuine and the authentic. They are appealed to by the truly worthwhile...