Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, when a playground was being inaugurated, favela adults chased children off the new teetertotters and seesawed up and down themselves. "This is the kind of animal I have to live with," Carolina whispered bitterly to a friend. "I'll put them in my diary so they will not be forgotten." Audálio Dantas, a reporter for Folhas de São Paulo, who was covering the inauguration, overheard, asked: "What diary...
...State Department Code Clerk James Thurber, then 25, defected into journalism, has harbored ever since an unrealized ambition: "One friend of mine put it very well when he said, 'That s.o.b. has been trying to get on the stage for 40 years.' " Last week when a star of his long-running Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, abruptly quit, the author-cartoonist trouped into the breach. With only two rehearsals, under Director Burgess Meredith ("Now I have him at my mercy; I can tell him that as an actor he has no right to change the author...
...painting in earnest after World War I, when he settled in the French village of Giverny on the Seine. There he would spend hours watching his ancient neighbor Claude Monet paint his lily pond. He went to Chartres and was overwhelmed by the cathedral windows, in Paris became the friend of Picasso, Miró and Braque, before returning to the U.S. for good in 1939. He passed through an impressionist phase, dabbled in cubism. But the rise of Hitler convinced him that any art not primarily concerned with moral and spiritual issues...
...make himself a modern man. Part 3, called Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), begins with a slyly humorous description of how the young man (Soumitra Chatterjee) spends his can't-afford-salad days of bohemian genius in Calcutta's slums. Suddenly one day a college friend carts him off to a country wedding that has an unexpected and fateful conclusion. The bridegroom proves to be insane, and in order to save the bride (Sarmila Tagore*) from the curse that will fall upon her if she is not married at the appointed hour, Apu makes the noble gesture...
...scene is London, and Nick Jenkins is still the sad Seeing-Eye dog for a troupe (if that can be imagined) of comic blind men. Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven...