Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly appear in Greece; they had been kicking around the Eastern Mediterranean for at least 1,000 years. This is made clear in Durant's history, the first written since full publication in 1936 of Sir Arthur Evans' great report on archaic Crete. The almost Parisian graces of Crete's strange society were remembered by the tough fighting tribes who displaced it, settling in Attica and on the Aegean islands. In one variety of toughness-the kind that rebels against concentration of riches and power -the Athenians were remarkable. About 600 B.C. they produced a statesman...
Album of Early Cantatas and Songs (Isabel French, soprano, and Hugues Cuenod, tenor; Technichord:*10 sides). When 18th-Century Parisian Jean Philippe Rameau took time off from writing the first modern treatise on the art of composition, he composed deft, archaic, but charmingly tuneful music. His cantata L' Impatience, along with songs and cantatas by Monteverdi, Schütz and Thomas Arne, gives French Tenor Hugues Cuenod a chance for some fancy, old-style tenor...
...with a true melting-pot flourish. Second prize went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi; second, third and fourth honorable mentions to Raphael Soyer, Aaron Bohrod and Ernest Fiene, U. S. artists all, though only Brook and Bohrod are native-born. Russian Marc Chagall, Spanish Mariano Andréu and Parisian Maurice Brianchon, who all paint in France, won the three remaining prizes...
Paris began to evacuate its children to the country on Wednesday. Carrying dolls, knapsacks and Government-supplied gas masks, young Parisians, with their mothers, crowded the railroad stations, whooped and scampered, set off in trains and taxis for safety zones, where many a Parisian family had prudently rented and provisioned a shelter in advance...
...France last month much was ado about an article in TIME appraising the Paris press. TIME had said out loud what many Parisians had for years been saying in lively whispers. Publisher Henry Robinson Luce, holidaying abroad, stepped off a train at St. Lazare to find that he had been sued for 5,000,000 francs by the Paris Press Association. But France's still democratic Government took no action, and TIME remained on French newsstands. Publisher Luce expressed regrets for TIME'S too-general indictment of the Parisian press. Fortnight later the Government, in an effort...