Word: cole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cole Porter was fascinated by him," recalls a witness. "He wrote a song: You 're the Top, You 're Leonard Zelig. But he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig...
That directness has made Torch Song a commercial success when the anticipated failure of other plays with gay themes has sent Broadway producers fleeing. Homosexuals have long been a vital part of the theater, of course-Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Tennessee Williams come immediately to mind-and it can be argued that much of Broadway is infused with a gay sensibility. But never before has an out-of-the-closet play like Torch Song done so well with straight, middle-class audiences. For 3 hours and 40 minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes...
...track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent: if a student graduates from a grande école, he is virtually assured a good job and comfortable station in life...
...Parents know that if the child doesn't get the right orientation early on, he'll end up in one of the classes poubelles [garbage-can classes] instead of getting to hec [short for Hautes Etudes Commerciales, a prestigious business school] or Ecole Polytechnique [a grande école]. It's highly unfair to ask a teen-ager to know what he wants to do with his life by the time he is 13, but that's exactly what the system does...
Healther E. Cole, librarian for Hilles and Lamont libraries, said installation of the electronic devices in the two libraries is not planned unless there is a "highly noticeable and irritating" book loss rate, which she said is "never perceived as a problem...