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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VOYAGE OF SILENCE. A deceptively simple story of a young Portuguese carpenter emigrating to Paris is given uncommon strength and stature by the compassionate observation of Director Christian de Chalonge...
...DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit-finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation-is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt...
...DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit-finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation-is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt...
LIKE all the correspondents in Chicago, the TIME contingent soon learned that covering the Democratic Convention was a demanding task. It required an uncommon agility in crowds, a determined concentration in the confusion of the gallery, and the strength to bounce back from a dose of Mace or tear...
...Existence. Ferragamo owes its growth to Fiamma's success in preserving her father's emphasis on restrained elegance and comfort. A farmer's son who did not have a pair of his own until he was ten, Salvatore Ferragamo made up for that deprivation with an uncommon love of shoes, and insisted that he had been a shoemaker "in some previous existence upon this earth." Ferragamo opened his own cobbler's shop at eleven and migrated three years later to the U.S., where he took anatomy courses at the University of Southern California in an effort...