Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
Trembling Rich. George Smith is the unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than...
...society than James ever did-chauffeurs, part-time ladies' maids, broken-down movie directors, cops, smalltown bankers, and so on. But like James, he is a snob and a firm believer that a man's life can best be mirrored in social surfaces. James's rich Americans are dazzled by Europe but never really escape America; O'Hara's favorite characters, however upwardly mobile, never really escape Gibbsville...
Already the General has proved himself an extraordinary ruler. Unlike his predecessors, he is more than just a politician. Among other things he is an historian with a rich sense of the French past and some pronounced ideas about the French future. When de Gaulle reflects on the international situation, his thoughts are inevitably those of a French historian. The idea of European union recalls Bonepart's continental system; it is an appealing memory. The more pressing problems of the Atlantic alliance and international Communism evoke less attractive images. The General remembers the four untidy years he spent in London...
...Visit tells of the return of an old and rich woman to the impoverished German town where she was born. The townsmen have known great poverty all their lives, and they hope that her lover of 50 years ago--Alfred Ill, played by Christopher Medearis--can persuade the old lady to give them some money. The old lady agrees to help--she will contribute the phenomenal sum of "one billion"--on one condition. It seems her former boyfriend had made her pregnant, and then denied before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced...