Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected better of the general." snapped a longtime Parisian Gaullist last week. "The least we can say is that we are surprised and hurt," wailed the National Federation of Veteran Prisoners of War. Charles de Gaulle, by his actions last week, dramatically refuted those critics who say that he uses high-sounding rhetoric to avoid taking unpopular action...
Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I hear strings and trombones, trumpets and percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear...
TIME'S source was not the Parisian left-wing press but its own reporting of key figures in the De Gaulle government. And TIME (like everyone else) assumes that De Gaulle had Soustelle's front specifically in mind when he for bade campaigning under the name De Gaulle "even as an adjective...
Racial discrimination in the U.S. gave most of the Parisian Negroes the initial push toward self-exile, but they stay in France for other reasons. Chester Himes concedes that "in America you have this personal problem, of course. But that's not what I mean about France. I like France, and can work here because everybody, and I mean everybody-the concierge as well as the intellectual-respects creative work. They understand writers and help them...
...Cole Porter's Parisian romp, kicks up its heels in Detroit, with Genevieve, the "Miss Innocence" of the Jack Paar TV show...