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...Plush Exile. Then, last month, Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux appointed Marcel Landowski, a composer of conservative persuasion and little renown, as the ministry's director of music. Boulez hit the ceiling, canceled all future government-connected engagements in France and fired off a scathing letter, which was published in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. He accused Malraux of jeopardizing France's musical future, called the Landowski appointment "badly thought out, irresponsible and illogical." Malraux, he charged, should understand "that music is a matter sufficiently important not to have it put into the hands of feebleminded and incompetent...
...shoulders." In Le Combat, Critic Jean Hamon accused Boulez of trying to control France's musical development with "a dictatorship Boulezienne conceived on the immutable principle that 'no one has any talent except us and our friends.'" Concluded Hamon: "Goodbye, then, Herr Boulez. Return to your plush exile. Stay there, and while you are at it, why don't you change your nationality?" Boulez's reaction: "Hamon is an imbecile, always was. It is this chauvinism which makes it impossible for me to ever live in France, and particularly in Paris, again...
...raised in the home of one of your "60-hour-a-week" physicians, whom my brothers and I were lucky to see once every two to three days. My father never owned a Rolls-Royce or had plush vacations. He rarely had time for family functions or a movie. I am 31, in debt, and struggling to support my family while completing my training. With luck I will be able to open my office at the age of 35, thereby going further into debt. However, when I die at about 55 or 60 (20 years from the time...
...Cholon's business activity is stretched along the Saigon River, a black, stagnant ribbon of water clogged with gaudy sampans and lined by crumbling warehouses. Into these godowns flows virtually all of Saigon's rice (Chinese control 90% of the nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo...
...enterprise of the School. Many have found it difficult to keep informed of what is going on, not only in the whole School, but in their own programs as well. Even the School's informal afternoon teas now draw about 200 students and faculty members each day to the plush Eliot-Lyman Room, and have grown from quiet gatherings with important topics of conversation to something resembling a theatre intermission. A sense of isolation exists, and it has been felt by faculty and students alike, but it has been the students who feel they have suffered most...