Word: bespaloff
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...brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with the hints of the future" in the Hargraves' Pinot Noir...
...radiance of life, the bloody darkness of death in war are constantly and insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...
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