Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each country came by the craze in its own way. In Paris, Jacques de Saint-Phalle, whose respectable business has been the manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
...produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer's dressing gown...
...dusty three-year search through the libraries and conservatories of Europe. To Jenkins' own surprise, Clarion Concerts was a rousing success at the box office. Before Jenkins gets through, his subscription audience will have encountered such obscure 18th century composers as Franz Anton Rossler, The Chevalier de Saint-George and Francesco Antonio Bonporti. In the concert-hall business, a line-up like that is equivalent to a Las Vegas chorus line composed entirely of suburban matrons...
...middle years, Henry Adams salted the tail of no abstract truth and had not secured the literary immortality of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and the Education, but he was subtly acquiring a measure of Socratic greatness. For the answers that man gives to the dilemmas of his time are often interred with his bones, but the questions he asks about life's eternal mystery live after...
...Disease Alone. Despite the ingenuity of their retrospective diagnosis, the Butterfields are far from wanting to debunk Saint Joan. "Though we may understand the reason for her visions," they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...