Word: ri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colette was the big cat of 20th century letters. She looked like a cat: eyes long and wild, lips thin and fierce. And she wrote like a cat: sensuality glides through her novels (Chéri, Gigi, Milsou, Claudine, Le Blé en Herbe) as a she-cat glides through a warm spring night. Like a cat, Colette was acutely sensitized to appearance and atmosphere; but she used her characters merely as furniture to rub her sensibilities against. The big cat, most critics have decided since her death in 1954, was not really a big novelist...
...Pyongyang's shift are largely economic. To close the gap between North Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul-ups in distribution; plants...
Tuesday, September 14 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Bridges at Toko-Ri, with William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March and Mickey Rooney. Color...
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS., Berkshire Playhouse: Viveca Lindfors in Colette's Chéri and The Last of Chéri...
...were supposed to be shown a movie, "The Bridges of Toko-Ri," but the projector broke. A few of the players played bridge or studied; most of them watched television until 10 or 11. It was tough getting to sleep for this game; there were quite a few sleeping pills consumed...