Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yoga & Oatmeal. It was this blossoming of inner faith, she says, that irresistibly drew her to "the divine serenity of Mozart, which is so close to the bosom of God. I discovered the purity and chastity of his way, the seductive grace, the incredible sweetness." The hardest part, she explains, was taming her "uncivilized Hungarian temperament, cutting back all passion, all effusiveness, all exaggeration, which does not go well with Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India...
...descends from a dynasty of successful novels and plays that was founded twelve years ago with Bonjour Tristesse, that sad, wispy novel about a girl's incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
Louis was infinitely tolerant of those who could be received at Versailles, but he drew the line at sodomy and laughing too loudly at Mass. The laughter he suppressed, but there was nothing much he could do about sodomy, since his brother, the Due d'Orleans, and his best general, old Vendóme, were notorious sodomites. The black arts were another thing Louis frowned on. Witchcraft, magic, and a Parisian underworld of pimps and professional poisoners had been involved in a plot to eclipse the Sun King...
Columbia was back in the game, but only for two minutes. Robertson, who had been called for off-side most of the afternoon, gnally escaped the whistle and was alone on the goalie with a long pass from Kydes. Robertson drew out the goalie with a nice dribble before crashing home his second goal of the day and fourth of the season...
Pusey spoke about the relationship between Harvard and M.I.T. and referred to himself as "spokesman for an older sister who, like Moses' sibling, 'stood at a distance' to see what would happen when the baby was found among the reeds." The conclusion of the simile drew a laugh when Pusey said that now, "The Institute no longer seems far downstream, and the baby institution--that's you-- is obviously doing very well...