Word: adieu
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...Gaddafi. Back in Paris, Mitterrand was forced to admit that, no, the Libyans had not completed their pull-out and that approximately two battalions still remained. There seemed little doubt, as the Paris daily Le Monde put it, that the U.S. statement had "profoundly embarrassed the The French bid adieu to Libyans French authorities...
Those who translate words from one language into another always find that truth and beauty cannot both be served. Something has to go. Voltaire's parting shot when he left Holland ("Adieu, canaux, canards, canaille!") may be accurately rendered in English as "Farewell, canals, ducks, rabble!" The only thing missing is everything that made Voltaire's remark so witty and memorably alliterative in French. If a four-word mot successfully thwarts attempts to export it, the problems posed by an epic poem more than 10,000 lines long, written two millenniums ago in a language now deceased...
...aware that one should not bother a parent, even the wife of a doctor, with complaints of the body. But then, you are no ordinary mother. Who else would write to her 18-year-old son, "Adieu, my darling, I kiss you tenderly with a pedal point to be sustained until the next kiss"? Small wonder that I could not bear to be parted from you, and that your death drove me to withdrawal from society and into the winding passages of Time, Memory...
...Then, just before heading offstage for a congratulatory hug from his longtime squeeze, Susan Anton, 32, he reverted to the depths of British music hall humor. Turning his back to the audience, Moore impishly flipped the tails of his jacket in the air as he bade Carnegie Hall adieu...
...understand why your story on John Updike did not mention his imagery. Anyone who has read Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu will long remember sentences like this one: "The crowd, like an immense sail going limp in a change of wind, sighed with relief...