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...heart attack; in Paris. A onetime medical student with a dual penchant for poetry and psychiatry, Breton brought Freudian psychology into art and literature, turning to stream-of-consciousness and free-association techniques in his poems and dreamlike novels (Nadja, Les Vases Communicants), expounded his ideas in two Manifestes du Surrealisme (1924 and 1930), found ready disciples in art (Salvador Dali) and letters (French Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard...
Ease in the Squeeze. The market had been ripe for a rise. Its ninth major downswing in 20 years had dropped shares to their lowest levels, relative to earnings, since 1958. Dozens of giltedged stocks-among them G.M., Du Pont and Allied Chemical-were underpriced. Such a situation was tempting to the mutual funds, which have been waiting for the right moment to buy at bargain rates. Then, too, there was good news: the elections in Viet Nam; the decision by the U.S. to buttress Britain's pound with more credits; the prediction by G.M. that next year...
...most concerned with raising Hollywood's "standards of excellence." "Forget about image," he preaches. "Image is an illusive word. Du Pont's greatest public-relations instrument is nylon. What we've got to do is make excellent movies"-not the sort of movies, he implies, that are being turned out by the M.P.A.A. members that hired him but rather those of the creative cinema of postwar Italy, the New Wave in France and now England. "The next creative center," he concludes, "will be here. We are educating an audience that will not accept the ordinary. We want...
...LODIE DU BONHEUR (RCA Victor). Tourists who happened to catch the movie version of Sound of Music in France heard this soundtrack and thought they'd tumbled onto Soeur Sourire. Not so. It is Mathé Altéry being the voice of Julie Andrews-and she isn't very far removed...
...dusk something like 90,000 people had spread blankets and set up camp chairs around the park's Sheep Meadow. It was possibly the biggest crowd ever to attend a symphony concert, and it listened enraptured as Beethoven's Eroica and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps filled the evening...