Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn't. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had "neither fishermen in the libretto nor pearls in the music." Bizet, who died at only 36, went on to greater glory with Carmen, but Pearl Fishers has never had more than indifferent success outside France and Italy. Last week, at the opening of the Empire State Music Festival, it got a rare, full-dress U.S. performance. The performance suggested that Bizet's fishermen have been receiving less than their...
...impressive; the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and the earth's temperature rises to a toasty 173°. Voyage, however, does creditably in Wires, Dials and Doodads; there is an atomic submarine almost as gorgeous as a producer's Cadillac, with a control room like a Parisian pinball machine...
Died. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 67, Parisian-born novelist-physician, a tortured ("I cashed in on my neuroses") iconoclast and virulent anti-Semite whose deafening, nightmarish and slang-ridden novels, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, set the salons aboil before his conviction (later rescinded) as a World War II collaborator with the Nazis; of a stroke; in Meudon, France...
...ordered back to Washington for what seemed a preparation to transfer to Naples. In Warsaw Scarbeck seemed to care little for politics, enjoyed music and taking drives with his family through the Polish countryside. But he had at least one other consuming interest: a petite Polish brunette who wore Parisian-style clothes, hung out in the better Warsaw cafes and was in fact in the pay of the UB, the Polish secret police. Scarbeck's shapely friend lured him into a compromising position, where he was caught by Communist agents. Unable to face exposure, he chose to become...
Rebounding fast, the Russians blamed it all on love, specifically a 21-year-old Parisian redhead. "We are sad about it," they said. "But he is young, and the girl is very beautiful...