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Died. Francis Poulenc, 64, prolific French composer, a tall, ruddy-faced man with a boisterous Gallic wit, who at 18 wrote his piano showpiece Perpetual Motion, shortly thereafter joined the rebellious "Les Six," a group of young composers (among them: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric) that left a bright mark on contemporary French music; of a heart attack; in Paris. In later years Poulenc's gay, airy theatrical music gave way to a more highly sustained and emotional style in such formidable pieces as The Dialogues of the Carmelites, a melodic opera based on the 1789 martyrdom...
...Your wit, your cheerfulness, your education...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, detonates a shattering three-act marital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage...
Obsessed with cold reason, nimble wit and ferocious examinations, French education is a series of sieves that let pass an ever smaller number of ever brighter students. The final screening is France's finest filter: the apex academies called the grandes écoles...
...dynamics that had gone out of the welfare state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television, a longtime stronghold of genteel conformity, bright young men fresh from the universities outrageously lampoon such sacred cows as the Church of England, royalty, black African prime ministers and their...