Word: chauvinism
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...that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, a musing on the turn-of-the-century black composer and an unknown peer that arrives off- Broadway this week. The company's longtime artistic director, Stan Wojewodski Jr., moved up to Yale two years ago as dean of the drama school and artistic director of the prestigious Yale...
...floods, thanks to massive levees built along its banks to protect riverside land. The combination of saltwater intrusion and freshwater cutoff, says Houck, leaves the wetlands "caught in a double whammy. You couldn't do a better job of screwing up Louisiana if you planned it."Wilma Dusenberry, a Chauvin, La., restaurant owner, reflects the fears of many who depend on the bounty of the wetlands: "If we lose the marsh, we lose our livelihoods...
First, the good news. Les Amis are unbelieveably hospitable. Compared with them, according to GM, "the Frenchman is the most constipated human being on earth." Forget many of the chauvinistic clichés of the past. (Chauvin, after all, was a Frenchman.) Par exemple, the book points out, "the notion that the Americans could produce anything good to eat or drink used to make us giggle." Faux. Actually, there are several restaurants in New York (run mostly by Frenchmen) that would rank with some of the best in Paris. American restaurants, the book says, "are infinitely more elaborate, elegant...
...Like Chauvin. By way of retaliation, U.S. presidential hopefuls may be tempted to emulate France's Nicolas Chauvin and cry a pox on all alien coinages. Admittedly many of these words and phrases are silly, frilly, misused and mispronounced by Yanks; they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue...
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