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YVES BRAYER-Wildenstein, 19 East 64th. Sixty-six oils, watercolors and drawings reflect the dizzying, dazzling light that never seems to set over the gaunt landscapes of the Mediterranean. First U.S. exhibition by this French traditionalist. Through...
...covered hills of the Jura mountains, a few miles from the Swiss border. The assemblage was splendid: Charles de Gaulle in his brigadier general's uniform; Premier Georges Pompidou; General Charles Ailleret, the modern-minded chief of staff of all French forces; General Louis Le Puloch, the traditionalist chief of staff...
...flaming feminism that most antagonized the traditionalist Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...Anything. Debussy succinctly defined his approach to musical composition with his reply to the registrar at the Paris Conservatory after that solemn traditionalist became exasperated with the student's habit of making up weird chords What rule are you following? demanded the registrar. Said Debussy: "Mon plisesir." Debussy's pleasure, almost from the time he entered the conservatory at the age of ten, was to break most of the accepted rules of composition. His music was full of dissonances, wildly assorted chords, conflicting rhythmic patterns...
...highest award for poetry. He was delightfully unpredictable. There was Cummings the crazy syntactical iconoclast who rarely used capital letters and recklessly (often unintelligibly) strewed syllables, commas and other gimcracks around the page. On the next page, though, he would turn up as a solemn, sonnet-writing traditionalist-or as Cummings the dreadful punster ("honey swoRkey mollypants"), or the pseudo pornographer happily smirking from the decks of his ship, the S.S. Van Merde: "May i feel said he (i'll squeal said...