Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have mordant thoughts about Félicie Crippa, who had been his mistress for 13 years. A soap and perfume salesman, Clé lived with Félicie in a cozy, two-room Paris apartment just down the street from Père-Lachaise Cemetery. He was a quiet man, always neatly dressed, always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional...
...gallery circuit, tapped lesser-knowns as well for the two $500 sculpture awards. The painting winners: Manhattan's Zygmunt Menkes for his bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners...
...there were quiet times. When the sun began to set the boxes would be closed and the stalls shut, the smoky air filled with the smell of stew and then the kids owned the streets. Dirty-faced hombres argued with scrawny paisanos, and miniature Buddhas contemplated life from their front stoops...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of "enemies of the peace" were jailed. Tanks kept cars and pedestrians two blocks away from Miraflores Palace. All was quiet, but the talk in Caracas was of "the next try," under better organized military men, perhaps aided by the civilians, who kept their arms folded this time...
Murrow. Trying to give viewers an insight into Harpo's more serious side, she explained: "Actually he is a very quiet man, philosophical. He uses his head." Behind her back, the camera caught 64-year-old Harpo standing on his head in the middle of the room...