Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening, were done with great delicacy and warmth. The result here and in a group by Faure was a fine sense of communication to the audience of artistry, feeling, and intelligence. Particularly notable was the contrast in voice and in mood the singer achieved between the Faure "Au Cimitiere," with its somber and melancholy lines, and the wistful "Adieu" of the same composer...
Originally Mellon had planned to set up his hospital near Africa's Congo River, then he switched to Haiti because its population is denser and its medical needs acute. Ninety miles from Port-au-Prince, in the Artibonite Valley, Mellon found a site and began to build...
...pretty talented. Anouilh created a fast-moving and well-confused story, making even his stock characters interesting--the butler wonderfully antique, the rich Messerschmann intriguingly reduced to eating nothing but noodles, "without butter and without salt." Fry, in translating and adapting Anouilh's orignal L'invitation au chateau, left the dramatic action intact but colored up the prose considerably, at the same time avoiding any over-fanciful flights of words. Only in the third act, when there is too much emphasis on the tired theme of how awful it is to be rich, does the dialogue seem labored...
...took some friends to Au Bec Fin, an excellent French restaurant, and a four-course luncheon cost less than $1 a person," the wife of a U.S. businessman who lives in Buenos Aires reported last week. "Movies at five cents, sugar at a penny a pound-if Americans would like the fine, careless rapture of living in 1956 with such items on their budgets, all they have to do is to take the next plane to Bolivia," a U.S. woman wrote from Cochabamba. With the forces of exchange legalization, runaway inflation and currency liberation variously at work, dollar-earners...
...Au revoir (pronounced o-rev-wahr...