Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dresser, and for a time he found work as a male model. He wangled his way to Hollywood with the aid of Mother's good friend, Actress Mae Murray. Never one to overlook an angle, he bought a 1939 Rolls-Royce -and thus began "my image of the rich boy dabbling in pictures...
Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
Dangerous Plaything. About the only gainers from the French show of intransigence are the world's underdeveloped nations, many of whom resent the Group of Ten as a white rich men's club trying to dictate monetary reform to the rest of the world. They not only want the 103-member International Monetary Fund to control the issuance of new reserves, but also demand vastly increased rights to borrow from the IMF to cover their recurrent financial difficulties. Continental countries, however, regard such a system as potentially inflationary and therefore a dangerous plaything in the hands of countries...
...know both men detect in Graham's simple and passionate sermons the gestures and mannerisms of the old man. Jones Sr. once hailed Graham as a prophet for his time, and in 1948 bestowed upon him a doctorate of humanities-which would mean more if the school, now rich and culturally respectable, had accreditation...
...thrust upon them by the treaty system, most Americans enjoyed their contact with China, the chance to be an upper-class foreigner riding in a rickshaw while still remaining an egalitarian grassroots democrat in one's own concience. For an average American to go abroad and find himself a rich man by comparison with the local people is also quite enjoyable. The Chinese were very polite, and countless Americans made warm friends among them. The American people built up a genuine, though sometimes patronizing, fondness for China...