Word: argan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEAR THE END of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, Beralde turns to the hypochondriac, Argan, and suggests that he "go see some of Moliere's plays" on the subject of medicine. To do so, Beralde explains, would be a good lesson for Argan and might persuade him of the absurdity of his belief in the power and good will of doctors, for they are all quacks--their pills, injections, and enemas only impede the proper working of the body...
...EUROPE OF THE CAPITALS 1600-1700 by Giulio Carlo Argan. 222 pages. Skira. $20. THE INVENTION OF LIBERTY 1700-1789 by Jean Starobinski. 222 pages. Skira. $20. The publisher's commendable ambition is to explore and explain Western civilization through its architecture and its art. These are volumes one and two in a series, simultaneously published in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, that will ultimately number 14. The Europe of the Capitals, with text by a professor of art history at the University of Rome, traces the decline of feudal nobility in Europe and the emergence...