Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report was more shocking to Parisian intellectuals than the original incident had been to the worshipers. To many, it sounded like a fair description of any eager young existentialist. So shrill, in fact, was the outcry that tendinous, hyperemotive Michel Mourre was released on bail, has written (for a couple of French newspapers) the memoirs of his autodidactic life as a Dominican student, as an existentialist, and as a bohemian...
Trooping into & out of a green-walled Manhattan studio one night last week were a Long Island housewife, a Parisian antique dealer, Actress Gertrude Lawrence, two delinquent boys, a city judge, Critic John Mason Brown, an employment agent, an interior decorator, and Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Robert Millikan. When the last interview was over, four hours later, 66-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt appeared to have as much energy as when she started. She also had, tidily recorded on platters, enough material for at least a week of the 45-minute Eleanor Roosevelt Program (Mon. through Fri., 12:30 p.m.) over Manhattan...
Chicken or Rat? At 42, Lorjou is a solitary, dead-serious Parisian who makes his living designing fabrics. His Atomic Age rates an "A" for effort, but it is clumsily drawn, and not so much composed as thrown together. Eying the crammed confusion of Lorjou's canvas, one unmoved gallerygoer remarked: "One atom bomb and all that will be left is the chicken, or perhaps only...
Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
Ford kept up the steady flow of his own writing-novels, criticism and reminiscence. But after a brief period in the '20s, when some of his novels became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories...