Word: rene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago. "I can't bear anything symbolic." Jackson protests that she paints only small pictures because her technique is too poor to allow her to paint big ones. In fact, her pettiness is a positive dimension, making what might otherwise be a fairly conventional mix of Rene Magritte and Grandma Moses seem witty, bizarre and remote...
...house, a museum maintained by Cuba's National Council of Culture, was Ernest Hemingway's retreat just outside Havana. Of the nearly 18,000 yearly visitors who tramp through, over 70% are Russian. "The Russians have a great respect for Papa," said the caretaker, former Hemingway Servant Rene Villareal. "They can discuss all his books except one." Since it gives an unfavorable picture of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War, "the Russians are not acquainted with For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...Center King Lear is distinguished by a supporting cast that truly supports. A rarity in the past, the players' acting rapport is a tribute to the skill of Director Gerald Freedman. Philip Bosco's Kent is a beautifully modulated performance with a Gielgud-like delivery of the Shakespearean line. Rene Auberjonois as the Fool is a supple mime of wisdom and Stephen Elliott's Gloucester is a man of probity incarnate, woefully abused. Barbette Tweed's Cordelia is appropriately sweet and good; Patricia Elliott as Regan and Marilyn Lightstone as Goneril are properly serpentine. Only Stacy Keach disappoints, by failing...
Died. General Rene Cogny, 64, commander of French troops in North Viet Nam during the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954; in the crash of an Air France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...Died. Rene d'Harnoncourt, 67, Vienna-born director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art from 1949 until his retirement last July; of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car while on a stroll; in New Suffolk, L.I. An authority on primitive art as well as a modernist, D'Harnoncourt first established himself in the United States in 1930 when he gathered and put on tour a formidable (1,200 objects) collection of Mexican artifacts dating back to the 16th century; he went on to teach at Sarah Lawrence College, became art adviser to Nelson...