Word: chapman
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WHILE MUCH OF THE HUMOR in Feydeau's work comes from the bizarre nature of the characters and situations, the force of the puns seems to have been lost in this translation by Robert Chapman, professor of English Literature. Hochepaix, for instance, tries to explain the pronunciation of the last syllable of his name in this witty exchange: "Pay. Not Pee. P-A-I-X." To which Ventroux replies, smugly. "Oh, I beg your pardon. Pay, not Pee. Unintentional error, of course." Similarly, Clarisse doesn't understand why Ventroux is upset that Hochepaix called him a "pretty pair of sights...
...this, of course, is the key to the sense of helplessness in this matter. Our books are ourselves, our characters, our insulation against those very people who would take away our books. There, on that wall, Ahab storms. Hamlet mulls. Molly Bloom says yes yes yes. Keats looks into Chapman, who looks at Homer, who looks at Keats. All this happens on a bookshelf continually-while you are out walking the dog, or pouting or asleep. The Punic Wars rage; Emma Bovary pines; Bacon exhorts others to behave the way he never could. Here French is spoken. There Freud...
Except for the outcome, the attack on Ray resembled an assault last November on another U.S. diplomat in Paris, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Christian Chapman. But Chapman had been lucky enough to spot his Arab assailant in time and had escaped a fusillade of shots by ducking behind his car. Security for U.S. embassy personnel had been strengthened after the attempt on Chapman's life. But Ray, who was one of four assistant military attaches, did not have enough rank in the 400-member embassy hierarchy to rate the special protection of a French police car that...
...killed Ray? Not the assailant who shot at Chapman, apparently, since the descriptions of the two men do not match. In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Lebanese Army Revolutionary Faction claimed credit for "executing" the officer because of American "crimes" against the Lebanese people. Western intelligence officials did not know whether the group was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a hit squad from Libya or some other Arab country, or indeed whether the report was simply a hoax...
...embassies abroad have been specially fortified against mob assault, and stepped-up security measures are being used to protect officials living in diplomatic compounds. But U.S. officials admit that it is next to impossible to give 24-hour security to people living in private apartments, such as Ray, Chapman and Brigadier General James Dozier, who was abducted by the Red Brigades in Italy on Dec. 17. Officials in Rome said last week that they saw no link between the Ray murder and the Dozier kidnaping...