Word: petitions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accept the perishable honor of providing France with her 17th government since the Liberation. Antoine Pinay is a small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 lbs.), trig man who, in unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into the premiership of France like a little-known guest emerging from behind the draperies into the babbling...
...guerrilla attacks back in the Hanoi delta, each an apparently independent operation, except that they all occurred in areas between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders...
...Demoiselles de la Nuit, a premiere for Boston, was the most enjoyable selection of the program. From the humorous antics of cats to the tragedy of a human-feline love, Roland Petit's ballet is both original and dramatic. Tall and tensile Mary Ellen Moylan conveyed the struggle of her love, arching and pawing with convincing quickness and grace. Her costume, as well as those of the ensemble, and the scenery contributed to the frenzied effect...
...days, $4,000,000 budget) production. The picture has mammoth sets-e.g., a Copenhagen square complete with shops, canal, bridge, market and opera house. It has four lavish ballets, among them the 17-minute-long Little Mermaid number, danced by lively, poodle-topped French Ballerina Jeanmaire, Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus of mermaids among $400,000 worth of underwater caves, fish netting, giant shells, ship spars and Technicolored jetsam. Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser has written eight catchy songs, among them three based on Andersen tales, Little Thumbelina, The Emperor...
This fall, in a sober moment, the student body voted in a "petit prohibition." No liquor may be consumed after 1 a.m., and the Sunday milk-punch parties have given way to discreet tippling between noon and 2 p.m. This year's Dartmouth weekend is shaping up as a good subject to omit in letters to sensitive parents...