Word: jean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched the Odeon theater out of the clutches of the weary Comédie Française, put it into the hands of talented Actor Jean-Louis Barrault. Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus got his own theater too. But although De Gaulle and his wife are people of austere and devout feelings, even Malraux's critics concede that Malraux has not tried to censor sex or demand uplift...
Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
Cornered by an aggressive newsman in the lobby of London's Ritz Hotel, Oilman Jean Paul Getty (TIME cover, Feb. 24, 1958) was persuaded to offer some reasons why the life of a billionaire is not roses all the way. "Quite a bother," to Getty, 66, and an altar-scarred veteran of five marriages, is a continual stream of letters from ladies proposing to be his sixth missus. Among his other complaints: "People keep writing me for money. They don't realize I don't have any spare cash...
...Four Unreasons. A Christian will object that the doctrine is in Christianity because its founder, no Stoic, put it there. But many of Russell's judgments might be echoed by the Christian faith, notably his disdain for the existentialism of France's Jean Paul Sartre. "Poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagance," sputters Russell, who sees freedom "in a knowledge of how nature works [whereas] the existentialist finds it in an indulgence of his moods." Russell may or may not be pleased to find the same thought expressed in the Bible...
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at nine this fall, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle has been holding forth in Emerson Hall, and his Gallic-flavored commentary on modern European history has charmed squealing 'Cliffies and sophisticated Harvard men alike...