Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the curtain went up in the same Théátre des Champs-Elysées, remnants of the Parisian elite, teen-aged American fans, and unwashed philosophers from St.-Germain-des-Prés saw a dark-eyed, intense little dancer in a clinging, stone-colored gown standing starkly alone. It was barefoot Modernist Martha Graham, on her first excursion abroad with her own company...
Surface Scraping. The Green Huntsman is the account of what happens to a -wealthy young Parisian of republican sympathies and aristocratic tastes during a tour as a second lieutenant of lancers in the provincial city of Nancy. From one of Stendhal's many points of view, the book is a simple daguerreotype of provincial French society of the 18305. A tilt of his head and the author's all-but-invisible monocle glitters in mockery of that society. Another glance flickers derisively over the monarchists; the republicans are next, and so on to the army, the middle class...
...Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...
Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
...messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval of the proposal to hold a conference ..." Hardly had Parisian newspaper offices received this statement when the embassy called excitedly to withdraw it. The British government's attitude, it seemed, could not yet be made quite clear...