Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stendhal himself. In Germany, the aging Goethe read History of Painting in Italy and Rome, Naples and Florence-the enthusiastic studies of Italian painters and passions signed "M. de Stendhal, former cavalry officer," and remarked appreciatively, "This man knows how to use others with skill." It was an apt remark, for it was Stendhal's habit to lift his material from others' books and then calmly "crystallize" it into his own extravagant views...
Walt W. Rostow (Yale '36) was a Rhodes Scholar just before the war. He enlivened many an Oxford sherry party by banging out a syncopated protest of his own composition (Claustrophobia Blues) on the piano. When not busy harmonizing or playing rugger for Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later...
Augmenting fine photography, Coward uses the technique of the dream, using the same scene in the beginning objective, and seen in the end through the thoughts of Celia Johnson, finally weakened by her tragedy. The music, consisting only of Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto, is apt to become tiring after an hour of repetition...
...1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called a "Wabo...
...insane, Author Kavan shows, the normal man is apt to appear either as a potential "traitor" and "betrayer" or as a blind, stolid creature who has no awareness of the terrifying "powers" that control the destinies of man. Sometimes these omnipotent powers assume human shape. They become "authorities," "officials," "advisers"-suave, tough men & women with hypodermic syringes who may rudely invade your own home at any moment, pack your suitcase, and drive you away to "prison" in a closed car-while the husband who once told you he loved you looks the other way, or assists the invaders...