Word: autumnale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These embittered opinions last week seemed long ago and far away. Mellowed by events, tall, uniformed General Charles de Gaulle, 67, and aging Sir Winston Churchill, 83, met for the first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of...
As the biannual autumnal electioneering exhibition draws nearer its November denouement, both parties find accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that...
"How can it really be that I was once the little girl and that one day I will be the woman?...How can it happen, when, after all, I always remain the same?" So muses the Marschallin, the wise, witty and autumnal beauty in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
Most of Verlaine's greatest poems (La Bonne Chanson, Sagesse, Romances sans paroles) express a medley of sensuality, longing and faith. Verlaine learned a "new" French-strong, vigorous and plain. He and Rimbaud broke down "the barrier between poet and reader by using French as it was then spoken...
And this Cambridge autumnal phenomenon--the lush full beard--has been suffering lately from the kind of neglect that springs from sowing a field too heavily with wheat. But we broached this subject once to a Student Council member, whose avocation is Marine Biology. He thought we were talking about...