Word: renee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rained. Over in the Hyannis marina four miles away, a presidential yacht, the Patrick J., bobbed at anchor, all tuned and ready for an afternoon's cruise. Baxter's Fish Market was standing anxiously by, awaiting the order for lobsters and fish for chowder. White House Chef Rene Verdon had bought $150 worth of food at a Hyannis supermarket, and carefully insisted on his full quota of trading stamps. Years of Diplomacy. A friendly crowd of 500 was at Otis Air Force Base as Pearson's Comet touched down from Ottawa. After striding forward to meet...
...community of interest and experience among Negroes in the New World (viz., North America, South America--especially Brazil--and the Caribbean) is more than a century old, and possibly older. (See writings of Africans like Sarbrah, Hayford, Azikiwe; Negro Americans like DuBois, Delaney; the French West Indian Rene Maran). In the late 19th century educated Africans in West Africa were articulating such a position--often without having had direct contact with new World Negroes--and Negroes in the Caribbean and North America were doing likewise. More recently, Negro intellectuals in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa have formulated the idea...
Platinum-haired Rene Carpenter, 35, wife of Triple Orbiter Malcolm Scott Carpenter, lunching with a Rotary Club group in Austin, Texas, admitted some drawbacks to being a highly publicized astronaut's lady whose husband is "sealed up in that paperweight." However, added Rene, "we do no more than the wives of helicopter crews in Viet Nam or the women the Thresher left behind. They risked just as much and lost a great deal more. Don't feel sorry for us. It's great to whisper at liftoff, 'Don't look back-we're with...
...second half of the program, the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Arthur Weisberg, performed Le Marteau sans Maitre (1955). The title and conception of the work derive from a set of poems of the same name published in 1934 by Rene Char. The poems are cruel, surrealistic visions of the war Char anticipated, and it is unfortunate that the program included none of them. An example (in translation...
...always had it in my soul," Rene Fribourg once said, "to love French 18th century things. It is true that my bedroom is Napoleon I, and my wife's bedroom is Charles X, but most of the rest is 18th century. I love Louis XV and Louis XVI." Until his death at 83 in January, only guests to the white stone Fribourg mansion off upper Fifth Avenue ever saw his big collection of furniture, art objects and painting; now it is to be knocked down at auction. Peter Wilson, suave chairman of the world's biggest auction house...