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...consider family history and local usage in weighing names. Judge Sévenier defends the name game as necessary to protect infants against "inconceivable and often absurd names." Sévenier himself winces at the father in Savoie whose surname was Cocu-Cuckold, and who named his son Parfait-Perfect. The Republic could do nothing: Parfait was a saint who has been revered in France since...
EXETER: PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon), suspense a la Francaise, offers brilliant color shots of Italy and the Adriatic; Alain Delon manipulates capable cast (including the luscious Marie de la Foret) as he attempts "le crime parfait." The dialogue is marred only by a linguistic "embarras de richesse." A fast-paced and well-plotted movie. Evenings...
...intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala, and he is now working on yet another religious work, for a male chorus and children's chorus, to be performed at the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Both will be "completely, completely, completely...
...party for Nov. 14, Mrs. Eisenhower's birthday, and had to postpone it when Ike was taken ill, gathered in the Willard Hotel, where they applauded warmly as their guest was led in to the strains of the Marine Band. The diners sat down to broiled chicken, vanilla parfait, "Mamie cakes" and small talk: Mrs. Eisenhower reported granddaughter Barbara Anne down with mumps and laughed heartily when Mrs. Kenneth H. Tuggle revealed that her daughter Sarah had written to the President to report that "I go to the same school with David [Eisenhower]. The only trouble...
...bathed each picture in suche a light That, though he be no "parfait gentil knight...