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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1961 | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Starts Sunday: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a lesser known and some-what less worthwhile movie, features Huston fils, and was directed by Huston pere. Evenings at 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Sunday matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDAR | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...Corbu" began "sniffing out the site," as he puts it, in 1953. He chose a slope to back his monastery against, propped on pillars. Then he listened and took notes while the late Dominican patron of the arts, Pere Couturier, explained the and problems of the Dominican discipline ("Here we walk in double file. Here we prostrate ourselves"). For three years Corbusier and his associates worked over the plans. The result is a rugged interplay of concrete masses and angles-a top example of the architectural style that is sometimes referred to as "the new brutalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monks in Concrete | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit Pere, La Seche Noire (the Black Cigarette), Le Gorille Gris (the Grey Gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Boys at the Snow Leopard | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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