Word: balzacs
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...case, whatever voice history uses in San Angelo must be rich, many layered and full of irony. If every great fortune, as Balzac said, is founded on a crime, a lot of good American towns, especially in the West, were built on nothing more dignified-or sinister, for that matter-than whisky and whorehouses. San Angelo, which now envelops the fort, got its start that way. Its economy in the first days grew robust upon soldiers' payday recreations and the gamy appetites of buffalo hunters. Susan Miles, 89, daughter of one of the earlier settlers, manages to sound both...
...composition with Rimsky-Korsakov, but he had no musical talent. Soon, after, he joined the art circle of Alexandre Benois and Leon Bakst. Here, too, his gift was for organization and promotion. With Diaghilev as editor, the group published the World of Art, an influential journal that celebrated Baudelaire, Balzac and the pre-Raphaelites...
...that we saw the adolescent Antoine constructing a shoebox shrine to Balzac. Now in Love on the Run, we see Antoine working in a printing shop and writing books. Through his autobiographical persona. Truffaut speaks for all the children in the world who grew up living vicariously through fiction. Mixed-up, intellegent, creative. Antoine symbolizes the modern intellectual who spent his adolescence going to classical music concerts only to fall in love with the girl in the next aisle...
...included her totally in his vast intellectual life, fully revealed for the first time. Together they read an astonishing variety of books. Shakespeare was a leitmotif of their days. One Christmastide they slogged through Tristram Shandy, finishing it with "aversion." Turgenev, Kleist, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Xenophon, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Moliere, Balzac, Cervantes: the list runs on like the Rhine...
...tradition, the makers of perfect, eloquent prints recording some aspect of nature with a lyrical gravity of inspection. Perhaps the best of them is Paul Caponigro, whose photographs of the prehistoric standing stones at Avebury in England (one of them looking surprisingly like Rodin's rough-hewn monument to Balzac) are of astounding fidelity to the substance they depict; every grain in the print corresponds, in some way, to the age and density of the rock...