Word: toits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural...
...title story, really a short novel, is somewhat different from the others: it shows what Muriel Spark can accomplish when she forswears the stage properties of the semi-supernatural suspense story and moves her characters about with no strings attached, "he tells the life and death of Daphne du Toit, an enchanting and entirely credible South African girl whose betrayed dreams illuminate a basic Spark theme-the cruelty of reality and the greater cruelty of the illusions that falsify it. (British Author Spark herself spent 6½ years in Southern Rhodesia during World War II, working at "odd jobs, waiting...
...EVENING CONCERT--Milhaud-Le Boeuf sur le Toit; Marais-Suite in d for Viola; Janacek-Sinfonietto; Mendelssohn-Quartet No. 4; Haydn-Symphony...