Word: coversation
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History 1628 is popular because it covers "a period that people never got to in high school history," Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, hypothesized yesterday. He called his course's high rank "a dubious honor."
TIME was just two months old in May 1923 when the first Frenchman, former Premier Rene Viviani, appeared on its cover. Since then, there have been 105 other cover stories devoted to French individuals or events. Last week, inaugurating TIME's 60th anniversary, all those covers went on exhibit...
In an introduction to the exhibit, Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald wrote: "The covers represent only a fraction of TIME's coverage of French affairs. But they outline the changes both in the American view of France and in the institution known as the newsmagazine." Stanley Hoffmann...
Commented Jacques Soustelle, former Governor-General of Algeria and a 1959 cover subject: "These magazine covers are a textbook of French history of the past 60 years." TIME is proud to be celebrating those 60 years of French history with 60 years of its own.
The Chéreau Ring is perhaps even more effective on TV than in the opera house. What is sacrificed in scenic grandeur, such as the looming pile that is Valhalla or Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked...