Word: bernard
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...events of its growth. One of them happened in France in the late 1880s, within a group of painters-some now familiar to us as secular saints or movie heroes, others still relatively ill-known -who kept venturing out of Paris toward more "primitive" places. Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard ranged among the megaliths, the cold heather and the gaunt folk-Christs in Brittany. Vincent van Gogh pursued what he called "the gravity of great sunlight effects" in Aries...
President Bok yesterday awarded Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Bernard Bailyn, currently Winthrop Professor of History, a University professorship, one of Harvard's highest academic honors...
Reported by Bernard Diederich/San Salvador
...DIED. Bernard Lee, 73, British character actor who often played policemen or soldiers in his more than 100 films (The Third Man, The Detective) and who was best known for his portrayal of "M," the spy chief who gives James Bond his orders in nearly all the Bond movies released so far; of cancer; in London...
This is true for this collection's best stories. They are by masters of the form, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Saul Bellow, all of whom will undoubtedly be represented when the O. Henry Awards publishes The Prize Stories of the Century...