Word: courant
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Some of the bleeding-heart au courant might say that this extraordinarily harsh, the Tanner is a new artist with promise. Tanner's actual promise seems more in the line of a director of television documentaries a comment which is not meant to be entirely demeaning...
...been easy to steamroll students into silent acquiescence when, as always, they are presented with a stage managed fait accompli. As a result, intellectual nullity has often been found impressive and even popular, and all that seems demanded of candidates is that they come suitably trailing clouds of au courant nationalist fervor...
Diplomats are expected to do their best to get to be au courant with the fundamental developments in art, as in everything else. Therefore Russian Ambassador to France M. Valerian Zorin kept his eyes peeled as he moved through the recent opening of the annual "Painters, Witness of Their Times" show in Paris. Going in the opposite direction was Brigitte Bardot-not exactly the living end, but a sculpture by Mougin...
Globe Editor Winship supplies a Boston view of the two: "It's a little unfair to compare them. They seem to have a different mission. Harper's is very lively and au courant. It's even going a bit kinky. The Atlantic still retains its heritage of civility, literary writing and careful reporting." Adds Ward Just, who has written for both magazines: "Manning hasn't sacrificed durable quality for the passions of the moment. He is not afraid to be dull at times...
Through it all, the jurors remained calm and open-minded, particularly toward McLucas' own testimony. One juror told a reporter for the Hartford Courant: "It was McLucas' testimony that freed him, not his defense. He was a gentle man. He was as honest as the FBI and the New Haven police." During the long deliberations, what many had believed to be a small minority holding out for leniency turned out to have been the majority. Judge Mulvey's "dynamite charge" to the jurors after their fifth day of indecision, requesting the minority to reconsider the equally thoughtful...