Word: bienvenu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classrooms we find that Bernie (pronounce it any way yo-all want to) Bienvenu is never unprepared. It may have taken 20 minutes of mental hand-springs on his part but he did astound the class, proving that "bags without handles are no good." The class laughed, but Bernie knew he had not "missed the point" and was therefore happy. Note also the breathless response which this brought up from New Jersey...
World's End closed with Lanny's departure from the Versailles Conference. Between Two Worlds opens at Bienvenu, a villa on the French Riviera, from which base Lanny can examine Europe of the '20s. He lives there with Beauty, his full-blown, flighty mother, and their friend Kurt, an ex-agent of the Kaiser who composes music and smolders over the bitter treatment of the Fatherland. Now & then Lanny's friend Rick turns up. He had wanted to be a dramatist, but as the decade progresses he becomes a leftish journalist. Not infrequently Father Budd dashes...